PDF-[READ]-Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (History of Computing)

The evolution of the multibilliondollar computer services industry from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing with case studies of important companiesThe computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries In this book Jeffrey Yost shows how computer services from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing have played a crucial role in shaping information technologyin making IT work Tracing the evolution of the computer services industry from the 1950s to the present Yost provides case studies of important companies including IBM Hewlett Packard AndersenAccenture EDS Infosys and others and profiles of such influential leaders as John Diebold Ross Perot and Virginia Rometty He offers a fundamental reinterpretation of IBM as a supplier of computer services rather than just a producer of hardware exploring how IBM bundled services with hardware for many years before becoming servicecentered in the 1990sYost describes the emergence of companies that offered consulting services data processing programming and systems integration He examines the development of industrydefining trade associations facilities management and the firm that invented it Ross Perots EDS time sharing a precursor of the cloud IBMs early computer services and independent contractor brokerages Finally he explores developments since the 1980s the transformations of IBM and Hewlett Packard the offshoring of enterprises and labor major Indian IT service providers and the changing geographical deployment of USbased companies and the paradigmchanging phenomenon of cloud service. By: . Mike . Wills. What is a PC?. Brief History. Current Industry Status. Future. Presentation Outline. Merriam Webster defines . a personal . computer as:. A . general-purpose computer equipped with a microprocessor and designed to run especially commercial software (as a word processor or Internet browser) for an individual user . Chapter 1. Introduction to Social and Ethical Computing. Historical Development of Computing. Development of the Internet. Development of the World Wide Web. The Emergence of Social and Ethical Problems in Computing. Some of these . slides are based on material from the ACM Computing Curricula 2005 . Science?. Do computer scientists do experiments? (hypothesis, test, evaluate). Art. ?. Are there creative elements in computer science?. Prof. Steven A. . Demurjian. . Computer Science & Engineering Department. The University of Connecticut. 371 Fairfield Way, Box U-255. Storrs, CT 06269-3255. Steven.Demurjian@uconn.edu. http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~steve. 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In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. A band of revolutionaries, self-described hackers, challenged this new norm by building operating systems with source code that could be freely shared. In For Fun and Profit, Christopher Tozzi offers an account of the free and open source software (FOSS) revolution, from its origins as an obscure, marginal effort by a small group of programmers to the widespread commercial use of open source software today. Tozzi explains FOSS\'s historical trajectory, shaped by eccentric personalities--including Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds--and driven both by ideology and pragmatism, by fun and profit.Tozzi examines hacker culture and its influence on the Unix operating system, the reaction to Unix\'s commercialization, and the history of early Linux development. He describes the commercial boom that followed, when companies invested billions of dollars in products using FOSS operating systems the subsequent tensions within the FOSS movement and the battles with closed source software companies (especially Microsoft) that saw FOSS as a threat. Finally, Tozzi describes FOSS\'s current dominance in embedded computing, mobile devices, and the cloud, as well as its cultural and intellectual influence. The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences--a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. A band of revolutionaries, self-described hackers, challenged this new norm by building operating systems with source code that could be freely shared. In For Fun and Profit, Christopher Tozzi offers an account of the free and open source software (FOSS) revolution, from its origins as an obscure, marginal effort by a small group of programmers to the widespread commercial use of open source software today. Tozzi explains FOSS\'s historical trajectory, shaped by eccentric personalities--including Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds--and driven both by ideology and pragmatism, by fun and profit.Tozzi examines hacker culture and its influence on the Unix operating system, the reaction to Unix\'s commercialization, and the history of early Linux development. He describes the commercial boom that followed, when companies invested billions of dollars in products using FOSS operating systems the subsequent tensions within the FOSS movement and the battles with closed source software companies (especially Microsoft) that saw FOSS as a threat. 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