...Operating Systems: Open or Closed Source Donald C. Dodd POS 355 06/09/2014 Dr. Bruce Huang Operating Systems: Open or Closed Source One of the biggest questions when choosing an operating system is whether it is free or not. Let’s face it cost face it cost is always going to be part of a deciding factor when it comes to making a decision in business. And free always sounds good but usual comes with some type of string attached. In this paper I will discuss what are open and closed source operating systems (better known as OS) and how they differ. As well I will discuss some of what you can expect and what not to expect from open and closed operating systems. And lastly I will give examples of each a closed and open OS. OS is often confused with things like word and excel but those are really applications that run within an OS. These applications are members of the Microsoft Office suite that is compatible with the Windows OS. The windows OS is an example of a closed operating system. What is a closed OS? A closed OS is an OS that the source code is kept private. Closed OS’s are typically made by one company and only the final product is made public. (You will see beta versions but typically these are close to final products). With closed OS’s you need to by licensing to make it work, without a valid license the OS may become inoperable thus rendering your computer useless when the companies “trail” period ends (usual within 30 days of installation). After purchasing...
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... | |Date: |11/11813 | |Re: |Individual Assignment for Week 3 | Today we need to discuss the difference between open source and closed source operating systems. When it comes down to the difference between the two we are going to look at difference with Android and iPhone. These two offer great insight and benefits with going one route vs. the other. • Android When it comes to open source the first thing that comes to my mind is Android. Android is an operating system that is an open source format and the benefits that it provides to its customer base is larger developer support, customizable, more secure, and extended community support. It has more developer support because anyone can develop for the platform; it is customizable because the developer can only change what the original developer chooses. It has the ability to be more securing because it is more transparent than closed source. This allows more people to look over the code to find any bugs and vulnerabilities are spotted much quicker and can be fixed. The community provides the extended support because the original developer might move on and stop developing the product and now the community can take over and extend the usable life. • iPhone Then when...
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...software makes the computer work for example operating systems, such as Windows XP and Norton Antivirus. Applications software is the software that you install onto the operating system, for example processing programs, spread sheets, web browser and games. Some of the legal issues involved in acquiring and using software in most business and organizations include software licensing. That is, copying software is illegal and individuals must stop people from copying software and distributing them, others are are infringement, piracy and ownership. Discussion Question #2 · What are some of the criteria used for evaluating software when planning a purchase? · What is open source software and what are its advantages and disadvantages? · Research and give a short summary of an open source application. How would you use...
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...keyboard. Despite being primarily designed for touchscreen input, it also has been used in game consoles, digital cameras, and other electronics. Android is the most popular mobile OS. As of 2013, Android devices sell more than Windows, iOS, and Mac OS devices combined, with sales in 2012, 2013 and 2014 close to the installed base of all PCs. As of July 2013 the Google Play store has had over 1 million Android apps published, and over 50 billion apps downloaded.[20] A developer survey conducted in April–May 2013 found that 71% of mobile developers develop for Android. At Google I/O 2014, the company revealed that there were over 1 billion active monthly Android users (that have been active for 30 days), up from 538 million in June 2013. Android's source code is released by Google under open source licenses, although most Android devices ultimately ship with a combination of open source and proprietary software. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance—a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Android is popular with technology companies which require a ready-made, low-cost and customizable operating system for...
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... Utah. The product of that meeting was a remarkable document called the Agile Manifesto, a call to overturn many of the assumptions of traditional software development. I, in my capacity as one of the principal theoreticians of open-source development, was invited to be at Snowbird, but couldn't make it. Ever since, though, I've been sensing a growing convergence between agile programming and the open-source movement. I've seen agile concepts and terminology being adopted rapidly and enthusiastically by my colleagues in open-source-land — especially ideas like refactoring, unit testing, and design from stories and personas. From the other side, key agile-movement figures like Kent Beck and Martin Fowler have expressed strong interest in open source both in published works and to me personally. Fowler has gone so far as to include open source on his list of agile-movement schools. I agree that we belong on that list. But I also agree with Fowler's description of of open source as a style, rather than a process. I think his reservations as to whether open source can be described as just another agile school are well-founded. There is something more complicated and interesting going on here. and I realized when I read Fowler's description of open source that at some point I was going to have to do some hard thinking and writing in an effort to sort it all out. While doing research for my book The Art of Unix Programming, I read one particular passage in Fowler's Refactoring that...
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...Closed Source Vs Open Source Pao Yang POS/335 03/06/2013 Mr. STERNIERI Closed Source Vs Open Source In the world of operating system we have two options to choose from these is Unix/Linux which is an open source, meaning that its source code made available and licensed with an open source license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. The other option is the closed source such as Microsoft’s Window which is software released or distributed without the corresponding source code. Generally, it means only the binaries of a computer program are distributed and the license provides no access to the program's source code. The source code of such programs might be regarded as a trade secret of the company. Access to source code by third parties commonly requires the party to sign a non-disclosure agreement. I also will like to discuss what source codes are and why having the right combination will give us free bees. What some of the major differences between an open source and a closed source? I see it all over the internet the heated debate of which is better open source or closed source and even though both sides have good supporting evidence to back up their claim about every from which is more secured to who has the better functional software. The argument of Windows vs. Linux is a greatly debated one, and in recent years has become quite heated. Because Microsoft's attempt to recover...
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...applications make new information administration challenge. Organizations have understood the significance of implementing accomplishments of the objectives characterized by their business methods through BI ideas. It depicts the experiences on the part and necessity of constant BI by analyzing the business needs. BI has two essential various implications identified with the utilization of the term Intelligence. The important, less frequently is the human intelligence applied in business issues/activities. Business intelligence is a new field of the analysis of the application of human cognitive to the administration and choice in different business issues. The paper gives the idea of BI, types of BI, open source software, review on some popular open source tools of BI, and Benefits. Open Source Business Intelligence Tools Business intelligence is a technology driven procedure for analyzing information and displaying significant data to help corporate administrators, business chiefs and other clients to make more informed business decisions. The process of taking substantial measures of data, examining that data, displaying a high level set of reports that gather the essence of that data into the premise of business activities, and empowering administrations to settle on major day by day business choices. BI as way and system for enhancing business performance by giving capable assists for executives to empower them to have actionable data at hand. BI tools are seen as technology...
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...Open-Sourcing Self-Organizing Collaborative Communities Alan Cohen still remembers the first time he heard the word "Apache" as an adult, and it wasn't while watching a cowboys-and-Indians movie. It was the 1990s, the dot-com market was booming, and he was a senior manager for IBM, helping to oversee its emerging e-commerce business. "I had a whole team with me and a budget of about $8 million," Cohen recalled. "We were competing head-to-head with Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, Sun-all the big boys. And we were 82 playing this very big-stakes game for e-commerce. IBM had a huge sales force selling all this e-commerce software. One day I asked the development director who worked for me, 'Say, Jeff, walk me through the development process for these e-commerce systems. What is the underlying Web server?' And he says to me, It's built on top of Apache.' The first thing I think of is John Wayne. 'What is Apache?' I ask. And he says it is a shareware program for Web server technology. He said it was produced for free by a bunch of geeks just working online in some kind of open-source chat room. I was floored. I said, 'How do you buy it?' And he says, Tou download it off a Web site for free.' And I said, 'Well, who supports it if something goes wrong?' And he says, 'I don't know-it just works!' And that was my first exposure to Apache . . . "Now you have to remember, back then Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Netscape were all trying to build commercial Web servers. These were...
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...CSS200-1401B-01 Principals of Network Security Instructor: Gregory Roby Phase 2, Individual Project Date: March 08, 2014 By: Gil Palacio Lab #3 Overview: In this Lab I am learning how to use the Zenmap Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the free Nmap Security Scanner application. This application is an open source tool that automates network exploration to perform several different types of security audit scans of large IP networks (LAB 3, CTU. 2014). SO here is what I gather while doing this Lab: I added several IPs to putty in order to build information or to give information to the GUI that I am looking into. I copy pasted the two interfaces that are up,up in the 1st question from the Lab Assessment sheet of the putty profile created: Interface Ethernet0/0 "", is up, line protocol is up Hardware is 88E6095, BW 100 Mbps Auto-Duplex(Full-duplex), Auto-Speed(100 Mbps) Available but not configured via nameif MAC address c84c.7556.de9e, MTU not set IP address unassigned 0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort 0 L2 decode drops 0 switch ingress policy drops 0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets 0 babbles, 0 late collisions, 0 deferred 0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier 0 rate limit drops ...
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...Part A - Case Study III-3Make-or-Buy Decision at Baxter Manufacturing Company 1. What are the arguments in favor of Manufacturing Vice President Moore’s proposal to purchase the manufacturing software from EMS? Moore argues that Baxter Manufacturing Company (BMC) is losing it’s reputation as a world-class parts manufacturer and is therefore implying that the company will lose business unless they purchase the manufacturing software. Moore also thinks that the manufacturing software will improve their manufacturing efficiency and customer service. The vendor, Effective Management Solutions (EMS), has told Moore that the entire system can be up and running in six months, where the estimated time to build an in-house system is two years. So there appears to be a big savings in the implementation timeline. The cost to buy the vendor provided manufacturing software is a fixed $220,000. The estimated cost to build the in-house system is over $400,000. So there appears to be a significant cost savings in purchasing the manufacturing software. Moore also argues that the vendor system is a better system because it is a mature system that has gone through many iterations of changes based on feedback from hundreds of customers. Moore believes that adopting BMC’s manufacturing process to the vendor software will improve BMC’s operations because of the experience that has gone into the manufacturing software.Moore believes that this system will be successful because he is championing...
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...Open Versus Close Source Software Tristan San Juan 03/17/2015 POS/355 Brian Davis Open versus Closed Source software? Which is better? There are many questions behind which software is better. There are literary many pros and cons on both of the soft wares. It comes down to the users’ limitation and preferable on which one is to use. Some people have both and use them for different reasons. As you read on we going to clarify some features on each kind of software to further explain the difference between the two kinds of software. Closed source Software, most users are going to be familiar with this. Windows, Adobe (Photoshop), Norton Anti-Virus and Mac OS are very fine example of what closed software are. In definition a closed software or aka a proprietary software is, “any software that is copyrighted and bears limits against use, distribution and modification that are imposed by its publisher, vendor or developer. Proprietary software remains the property of its owner/creator and is used by end-users/organizations under predefined conditions ("Proprietary Software", 2015).” Meaning it is what it is you cannot edit it in source code level, I mean you can hack it but most likely as users who doesn’t know anything about coding will most likely break it. One of the biggest sign when people see closed source software is it cost money, yes it does and you pay for what you get. Some of the benefits of having a closed source software is that is one its reliable quality...
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...Managers Report: Open Source software Vs. Closed Source software A program that is operated under the open source label has to fulfil several criteria. The most important of these are: Can be circulated freely: Anyone may use open source software and pass it on as often as he or she wishes. Availability of the source code: The software suite must contain the source code or this must be available at a freely accessible location. Modifications to the source code: The source code may be adapted to individual requirements and be passed on in this modified format. For example, Linux - by now a prominent open source operating system - was always known to be stable; however, in the beginning its only fans were in the server area. Configuration was too complicated and the user interface was not user-friendly enough, were the complaints. Advantages of open source The advantages are a result of the three core principles on which the open source software is based: Availability of the source code and the right to be able to modify it. As the source code is available, any interested developer can extend, improve or adapt it to individual requirements as he or she wishes. Errors and security gaps can quickly be discovered and rectified through the co-operation of programmers throughout the world. No commercially oriented company could possibly pay a similar number of developers nor react as quickly. The right to pass on an open source software application and all modifications...
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...UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology (Third Year – Sem. V & VI) Revised course (REV- 2012) from Academic Year 2014 -15 Under FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY (As per Semester Based Credit and Grading System) University of Mumbai, Information Technology (semester V and VI) (Rev-2012) Page 1 Preamble To meet the challenge of ensuring excellence in engineering education, the issue of quality needs to be addressed, debated and taken forward in a systematic manner. Accreditation is the principal means of quality assurance in higher education. The major emphasis of accreditation process is to measure the outcomes of the program that is being accredited. In line with this Faculty of Technology of University of Mumbai has taken a lead in incorporating philosophy of outcome based education in the process of curriculum development. Faculty of Technology, University of Mumbai, in one of its meeting unanimously resolved that, each Board of Studies shall prepare some Program Educational Objectives (PEO‟s) and give freedom to affiliated Institutes to add few (PEO‟s) and course objectives and course outcomes to be clearly defined for each course, so that all faculty members in affiliated institutes understand the depth and approach of course to be taught, which will enhance learner‟s learning process. It was also resolved that, maximum senior faculty from colleges and experts from industry to be involved while revising the curriculum. I am happy to state...
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...Open and Closed Source Systems Paper POS/355 March 1, 2013 Bhupinder Singh Open and Closed Source Systems Paper GNU GPL (General Public License) defined as the copy left or free licensed software (GNU.org, 2007). When making an invention the creator must have copyrights to protect them from their inventions. No one wants their inventions taken from them. They can loss acknowledgement or worse the royalties not given to them. Copyrights mean the right to copy; generally, it gives the copyright holder many other rights to their software or products. Creators who work hard to make their software or products a reality, they want that accreditation for their works; and they can determine who can take the work and financially benefit for the use it. It is a form of intellectual property; like patent, trademark, and trade secret (copyright.gov, 2012). By contrast, the GNU GPL is freedom of a guarantee to change and share the versions of the programs or software’s (GNU.org, 2007). Most organizations use GNU GPL for their software and it with their authors also that release the work. The licenses are put in place for developer’s freedom and to change and share their work that they develop; this is GNU General Public License. There are steps that are taken to use GNU GLP. (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this license giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it, and this the developers that uses GNU GLP...
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...literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market. Some Examples of Apple disruptive products: Iphone , Ipod , Ipad….. Iphone is disruptive because , apple opened its platform to third-party developers and provide an Iphone Software Development Kit to developers free of charge . So the Iphone is the example of the benefical open development platform for the parental country . 2. Describe some of the unique ways Salesforce SFA application uses the iPhon’s features, including at least one not mentioned above It uses the iphone capacity to be connected to internet to exchange inbformations and also used the touched screen to easily generate tasks. What other companies or Web sites that you know of have open development platforms? Some Companies having An open development platform : Android , linux , T-Mobile What advantages does the SFA application have for salespeople? If you were a salesperson, how would you use it? Sales automation systems create competitive advantage as the accurate sales forecasting feature enables evaluating competition trends followed by defining effective business strategies. 2.Helps the sales managers to monitor and control their sales team and track potential leads. The real time nature helps them to assess team/s and...
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