Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry

by David G. Messerschmitt and Clemens Szyperski

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