Exam 14: Software in Flux: Open Source, Cloud, Vittualized and App-Driven Shifts

Software automating proprietary processes considered vital to an organization's competitive advantage are often excellent candidates for running via SaaS efforts, since SaaS vendors have additional expertise on organizational functions gleaned from knowledge of working with a vast number of customers.

One of the risks associated with SaaS is the:

_______________ is the name of the popular service where you'll find GitHub, where millions of open source projects hosted and shared.

What are benefits afforded to vendors by SaaS?

What is open source software? How is it different from the conventional offerings of proprietary software?

Why do firms prefer to use open source software products over conventional software?

Installing a complex set of an organization's legacy systems on third-party hardware can be a brutal challenge. For that reason we can expect most cloud computing efforts to focus on:

_____ refers to software that is free and where anyone to look at and potentially modify the code.

The _____ of open source products is used to power many of the Internet's most popular Web sites.

What are the factors to be considered by managers when making a make, buy, or rent decision to satisfy the IT needs of their firms?

App developers often lament the ______________ created within apps where data is more tightly controlled by a service provider and where firms must comply to the usage policies of the platform provided.

One of the drawbacks of open source software is that it cannot be easily migrated to more powerful computers as circumstances dictate.

How has open source software had a disproportionate impact on the IT market?

All of the costs associated with the design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, training and maintenance of a software system are collectively termed as:

Firms that adopt software as a service actually buy a system's software and hardware, so these systems become a fixed operating expense.

SaaS offerings usually work well when the bulk of computing happens at the client end of a distributed system.

Which of the following is one of the benefits enjoyed by SaaS vendors?

Explain how cloud computing's impact across industries is proving to be broad and significant.

The scalability of a software product is defined as the:

_____ allow(s) a server to run what amounts to a copy of a PC-OS, applications, and all-and simply deliver an image of what's executing to the remote device.