MIS 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Open-Source Software, Sunk Costs, Mysql

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

Document Summary

Marginal cost to produce an additional copy of a software product is almost 0. Software just has to be duplicated, not physically created for delivery fundamental/traditional model of software is declining. Open source software (oss) is free to look and modify. Poses a direct threat to the assets and advantages that market leaders currently hold. Cloud computing allows for computing resources- hardware or software - to be provided over the internet. Software as a service: a form of cloud computing where a firm subscribes to a. 3rd party software and receives an online service. Smaller firms now have greater computing power. Kernel became core of tivo, android, chrome. Cost: free alternative to expensive commercial code. Reliability: (cid:373)o(cid:396)e people looki(cid:374)g at (cid:272)ode (cid:373)o(cid:396)e likely to (cid:272)at(cid:272)h e(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:396)s. Scalability: can run everything from cheap hardware to supercomputing. Choose (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h le(cid:448)el of o is good fo(cid:396) the (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it is(cid:374)"t permanent.