Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry

by David G. Messerschmitt and Clemens Szyperski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262633310
• ISBN13: 9780262633314
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher