Software Ecosystem – Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry - Softcover

Messerschmitt, David G; Szyperski, Clemens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262633310 ISBN 13: 9780262633314

Publisher: MIT Press, 2005

Synopsis

Software Ecosystem Software and its relation to users, developers, managers, policy, and economics; a guide for all professionals who use software. Full description

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--Paul Resnick, University of Michigan School of Information

--Richard N. Langlois, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut

--Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Director, NET Institute

" "Software Ecosystem" is an encyclopedic and cutting-edge book. Bridging the technological and business spheres, it will be a terrific resource for anyone working in or studying the software industry." --Richard N. Langlois, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut

" Marketers, programmers, consultants, and lawyers all participate in the software ecosystem. This book will help professionals who fill any of these roles to go beyond the buzzwords to understand the rest of the system they inhabit." --Paul Resnick, University of Michigan School of Information

" This book is an excellent analysis of how software affects our lives. It is required reading for any serious student of the computer industry and its effects on business, innovation, and economic growth." --Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Director, NET Institute

& quot; Marketers, programmers, consultants, and lawyers all participate in the software ecosystem. This book will help professionals who fill any of these roles to go beyond the buzzwords to understand the rest of the system they inhabit.& quot; --Paul Resnick, University of Michigan School of Information

& quot; Software Ecosystem is an encyclopedic and cutting-edge book. Bridging the technological and business spheres, it will be a terrific resource for anyone working in or studying the software industry.& quot; --Richard N. Langlois, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut

& quot; This book is an excellent analysis of how software affects our lives. It is required reading for any serious student of the computer industry and its effects on business, innovation, and economic growth.& quot; --Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Director, NET Institute

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Synopsis

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are different - technologically, organisationally, and socially - from other industries that have followed a similar trajectory. The growing importance of software requires professionals in all fields to deal with both its technical and social aspects; therefore, users and producers of software need a common vocabulary to discuss software issues. In Software Ecosystem Messerschmitt and Szyperski address the overlapping and related perspectives of technologists and non-technologists.

The book is organised around six points of view: users, and what they need software to accomplish for them; software engineers and developers, who translate the user's needs into program code; managers, who must orchestrate the resources, material and human, to operate the software; industrialists, who organise companies to produce and distribute software; policy experts and lawyers, who must resolve conflicts inside and outside the industry without discouraging growth and innovation; and economists, who offer insights into how the software market works.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0262633310
• ISBN 13: 9780262633314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432