The world’s biggest software maker felt that it had been robbed‚ so much so that they posted a high-level summary of 235 patents that were allegedly violated by Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)‚ including the Linux Kernel‚ Samba‚ OpenOffice.org‚ and others .Microsoft does not play when it comes to patent infringement‚ but did they have a case?”… So if Microsoft ever sued Linux distributor Red Hat for patent infringement‚ for instance‚ OIN might sue Microsoft in retaliation‚ trying to enjoin distribution
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Phurnace Software‚ LLC: According to the business plan set forth in the case‚ assuming the purported software capabilities were real‚ I would invest in Phurnace Software due to four primary reasons‚ including solid market validation‚ niche market‚ favorable business model and huge potential market and conservative projection. Solid Market Validation: the market validation included both primary research and secondary data collection. The team conducted several face-to-face interviews with the actual
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Total control of User Experience in Software Development a Software Engineering dream? Joerg Doerr Fraunhofer IESE Fraunhofer Platz 1 Joerg.Doerr@iese.fraunhofer.de Daniel Kerkow Fraunhofer IESE Fraunhofer Platz 1 Daniel.Kerkow@iese.fraunhofer.de ABSTRACT In this paper we present a preliminary version of a software engineering approach to gain control over the User Experience (UX) during development time. We show results of an exploratory study with 59 subjects‚ discovering correlations
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Case Study #1 – Software Engineering Elizabeth M. Crispino 01 December 2010 Explain why programs which are developed using Evolutionary Development are likely difficult to maintain. Evolutionary development is an iterative and incremental approach to software development. Instead of creating a comprehensive artifact‚ such as a requirements specification‚ that you review and accept before creating a comprehensive design model (and so on) you instead evolve the critical development artifacts
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A Comparison of Productivity Software Applications Garnel Dahn Strayer University The software applications that are used to create documents‚ databases‚ presentations‚ and spreadsheets are called productivity software. Most people have had some experience with productivity software at home‚ school‚ or work. MS Office software reigns supreme in the industry. Microsoft Windows operating systems are used on over 80% of computers in homes‚ schools and offices. (Stricklan‚ 2008)However‚ just because
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going to be adding new accounting software this year and we are putting you in charge of doing all the research in finding the proper one for our company. We need you to consider all the factors of our company to make sure you are getting the correct package that best fits our business. Some of the most important factors you will be considering when researching are as followed: Come up with a group of people that you will be overseeing that can make sure the software is installed and running properly
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which are most likely to adopt cloud-based ERP and CRM software services will be companies that want to cut IT staff cost. With CRM and ERP‚ a business can be up and running with the software quickly which less need for in-house IT staff or high levels of technical skills‚ and things like security and upgrades are looked after by the vendor. This is because the difference between cloud and on-premise is that cloud-computing makes your software an operational expense rather than a capital spend. There’s
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The Service Blueprints overview Compiled by Marc Fonteijn - marc@31v.nl - May 2010 http://31v.nl/weblog/2010/05/the-service-blueprints-overview before you continue I don’t take any credit for the blueprints your are about to see. All the rights belong to respectfull owners. Everything you will see in the coming slides is or has been publicly available on the internet. I’ve done my best to included a refrence to the source of the example where I could. source: Brandon Schauer - http://www
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Summary Software reliability modeling has‚ surprisingly to many‚ been around since the early 1970s with the pioneering works of Jelinski and Moranda‚ Shooman‚ and Coutinho. The theory behind software reliability is presented‚ and some of the major models that have appeared in the literature from both historical and applications perspectives are described. Emerging techniques for software reliability research field are also included. The following four key components in software reliability theory
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The Blue Sky Software Consulting Firm MNGT 6000-Integrated Studies in Management People clearly are an organization’s most critical resource. Their knowledge and skills along with their commitment‚ creativity‚ and effort are the basis for competitive advantage. It is people that have creative ideas for new products or for process improvements that devise marketing strategy or take technologies to the next level. As consultant for Blue Sky‚ it is my obligation to develop recommendations
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