MIS 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Service-Level Agreement, Utility Computing, Scalability

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 301
• Professor: Rock Joshua

Document Summary

Chapter 12: software in flux: open source, cloud, and virtualized and app-driven shifts. Marginal cost: the cost of producing one more unit of a product. Open source software (oss): software that is free and where anyone can look at and potentially modify the code. Cloud computing: replacing computing resources: either an organization"s or individual"s hardware or software: with services provided over the internet. Software as a service (saas): a form of cloud computing where a firm subscribes to a third- party software and receives a service that is delivered online. Virtualization: a type of software that allows a single computer (or cluster of connected computers) to function as if it were several different computers, each running its own operating software. Linux: an open source software operating system. Lamp: an acronym standing for linux, the apache web server software, the mysql database, and any of several programming languages that start with p (example: perl, python, or php)