Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (Paperback)

David G. Messerschmitt, Clemens Szyperski

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2005-08-12
  • 售價: $770
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$755
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 432
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0262633310
  • ISBN-13: 9780262633314
  • 相關分類: 資訊科學軟體工程
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Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are different--technologically, organizationally, and socially.

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 nontechnologists. After an introductory chapter on technology, the book is organized 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 organize 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. Each chapter considers not only the issues most relevant to that perspective but also relates those issues to the other perspectives as well. Nontechnologists will appreciate the context in which technology is discussed; technical professionals will gain more understanding of the social issues that should be considered in order to make software more useful and successful.

David Messerschmitt is Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

Clemens Szyperski is a Software Architect at Microsoft in Redmond and affiliated with Microsoft Research. He is a School of Computer Science Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

 

Table of Contents:

Preface xi
1 Introduction 1
1.1 What Makes Software Interesting? 2
1.2 Organization and Summary 7
1.3 Research and Discussion Issues 11
2 Information Technology 13
2.1 Information 14
2.2 The Constituents of IT 21
2.3 Moore's Law 26
2.4 Research and Discussion Issues 37
2.5 Further Reading 39
3 Users 41
3.1 Applications Present and Future 42
3.2 User Value 49
3.3 Research and Discussion Issues 63
3.4 Further Reading 65
4 Creating Software 67
4.1 Elements of Success 68
4.2 Organizing Software Creation 69
4.3 Software Architecture 84
4.4 Program Distribution and Execution 94
4.5 Distributed Software 106
4.6 Research and Discussion Issues 118
4.7 Further Reading 120
5 Management 121
5.1 Value Chains 122
5.2 Total Cost of Ownership 134
5.3 Social Issues in Software Management 135
5.4 Security as a Distributed Management Example 145
5.5 Research and Discussion Issues 166
5.6 Further Reading 169
6 Software Supply Industry 171
6.1 Industrial Organization and Software Architecture 171
6.2 Organization of the Software Value Chain 173
6.3 Business Relationships in the Software Value Chain 185
6.4 Research and Discussion Issues 196
6.5 Further Reading 197
7 Software Creation Industry 199
7.1 Industrial Organization of the Software Industry 199
7.2 Cooperation in the Software Industry 229
7.3 Component Software 244
7.4 Research and Discussion Issues 263
7.5 Further Reading 265
8 Government 267
8.1 Intellectual Property 267
8.2 Regulation 284
8.3 Research and Education 299
8.4 Research and Discussion Issues 306
8.5 Further Reading 308
9 Economics 309
9.1 Demand 310
9.2 Supply 323
9.3 Pricing 327
9.4 Rationale for Infrastructure 338
9.5 Software as an Economic Good 343
9.6 Research and Discussion Issues 347
9.7 Further Reading 349
10 The Future 351
10.1 Slowing Technological Advance 351
10.2 Information Appliances 353
10.3 Pervasive Computing 355
10.4 Mobile and Nomadic IT 357
10.5 Research and Discussion Issues 360
10.6 Further Reading 360
Postscript 361
Notes 365
Glossary 375
References 391
About the Authors 403
Name Index 405
Subject Index 4

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描述:軟體在不到五十年的時間內從默默無聞變成不可或缺的存在。雖然其他行業也有類似的發展軌跡,但軟體及其支援產業與眾不同。在這本書中,作者從多個角度解釋了軟體及軟體產業在技術、組織和社會方面的差異。

軟體的重要性日益增長,需要各個領域的專業人士同時處理其技術和社會方面的問題;因此,軟體的使用者和生產者需要一個共同的詞彙來討論軟體問題。在《軟體生態系統》中,Messerschmitt和Szyperski探討了技術人員和非技術人員的重疊和相關觀點。在介紹技術的第一章之後,本書圍繞著六個觀點進行組織:使用者及其對軟體的需求;軟體工程師和開發人員,將使用者的需求轉化為程式碼;管理者,必須協調資源(物質和人力)以運營軟體;工業家,組織公司生產和分發軟體;政策專家和律師,必須解決行業內外的衝突,而不會阻礙增長和創新;經濟學家,提供有關軟體市場運作的見解。每一章不僅考慮與該觀點最相關的問題,還將這些問題與其他觀點相關聯。非技術人員將欣賞到技術討論的背景;技術專業人員將更加了解應該考慮哪些社會問題,以使軟體更有用和成功。

David Messerschmitt是加州大學伯克利分校電機工程和計算機科學的Roger A. Strauch教授。

Clemens Szyperski是微軟的軟體架構師,並與微軟研究部門有關聯。他是昆士蘭科技大學計算機科學學院的兼職教授。

目錄:

前言

1. 引言
1.1 軟體的有趣之處

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