Essays Tagged: "software company"
Software licenseing and piracy act for a business lay class
Software Licensing and PiracyBusiness LawIn 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and internati ... wIn 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over ... with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software industry's p ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
The history of Microsoft and Bill Gates
one of the biggest companies in the world. It distributes products worldwide and is the number one software company in the world. Microsoft would never have existed if it weren't for Bill Gates.Bill ... made office products for it. In 1987 'excel' and 'word' were produced. Gates continued to make more software and released 'Windows 95, 98, 2000', and many more office products such as 'Access', 'Publi ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics
Microsoft monopoly
vs. Microsoft. What is all this about? According to my two articles, Microsoft, the world's leading software company, is being sued by the Justice Department joined by 19 states.As we all know, Micros ... ement.It's going to be interesting to see what will happen to this case. Will the U.S. break up the software giant or will Microsoft keep on dominating the operating system market. I would like to see ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Bitstream - Human resources
idates that let us predict the most adequate candidate for the job.Company BackgroundBitstream is a software company that has identified an opportunity to develop and market a new product. The company ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Recruitment, selection and retention
TO: Mr. Edward Bennett Williams, PresidentWinner software Co.From: Peter, CaoManager of Human Resources ManagementRe: Our new approach to recruitment ... pproach to recruitment, selection and retentionDate: 16 December 2003Executive Summary"Winner" is a software company which founded in May, 2000. It designs financial management software for trade comp ... ment software for trade companies. There are currently 120 employees in our firm. The demand of our software increased very quickly since last year, we decided to expand our business and the size of f ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Proposal for a Visual Debugger
siness report written for Business Communication (English 302).The premise is that I work for a software company and I am proposing an improvement to an integrated development environment.Abst ... integrated development environment.AbstractDebugging is the most time-consuming process in software engineering. Coding errors are hard to detect, since having even one line wrong can produc ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Microsoft Corporation (A Look)
MICROSOFT CORP.EVOLUTIONMicrosoft is the world's largest software company with over 50,000 employees in various countries around the world. It was started in ... would be the OS for the future. Many developers had committed most of their resources to developing software for OS/2 and ignored Windows. These developers were taken by surprise when in 1991 Bill Gat ... eady for any challenge from the competition or the market. In this frame of mind, being the largest software company in the world is not seen as a form of safety or a guarantee of future success; for ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies
Microsoft Corporation:
Microsoft's ambitions are anything but small. The world's #1 software company provides a variety of products and services, including its Windows operating system ... ith its core markets maturing, Microsoft is targeting services for growth, looking to transform its software applications into Web-based services for enterprises and consumers. Microsoft has reached a ... n, agreeing to uniformly license its operating systems and allow manufacturers to include competing software with Windows. Microsoft is dealing with sales that fell short of previous years growth marg ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies
Phil Chan Case Analysis
d fee scam that has been run out of Nigeria since the mid-1980s but apparently unknown to the Basic Software Company of Hong Kong. On August 26,1998 the owner of Basic Software, Allen Lee, was sent a ... s claimed to have gotten Mr. Lee's name from a close relation at the Nigerian Export Council. Basic Software was supposedly selected by the Tender Committee at NNCP to assist in facilitating a financi ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Bill Gates
r what he is and what he has done for the people. I think Bill Gates has changed the world with his software company. The only thing I knew about Bill Gates was that he is the owner and founder of Mic ... entury: However his most influential single asset has been the revolutionizing the computer software sector as briefly explained in the following: 1) Before Windows people used to reme ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Critique A Website
Microsoft Website Microsoft is the leading software company in the world. Developing a website, www.Microsoft.com, has helped them to sell thie ... vers.Most people buy products like windows 2000 and Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server to upgrade their software for better performance. Another product type is business software. This software contains M ... her types of products that are described on Microsoft.com are games, development tools, educational software, reference software, hardware, home productivity, Macintosh products, and Microsoft press. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Compare and contrast two of the following and examine what they reveal about the nature of human existence: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and "The World of the Matrix"
ows.In the World of the Matrix, the main character is Thomas Anderson, an employee of a respectable software company in the light, Neo, a hacker in the dark, and who will become “The One”. H ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Managerial and Organizational Behavior - Office Space: A Case Study
onal behavior (Nelson, Quick, 2006). Office Space is a comedy that ridicules work life at a typical software company, Initech. The focus is on a handful of individuals who are fed up with their jobs a ... that they are coming, the employees start to wonder who will be the first to go.Peter Gibbons is a software engineer who spends his days updating bank software to remedy the then-expected Y2K disaste ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Logic and Critical Thinking
punctually and safely.When I was younger, I acted as a Group Assistant for a multimedia group at a software company. I worked for a contracting agency that placed me in the position because they thou ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
open source
Is open-source software the key to the future of free errorless technology? Microsoft currently holds the vast majo ... he vast majority of the market, but can they keep that market share for long? Linux, an open-source software company, would argue that it definitely has the possibility of becoming the world?s leader ... s the possibility of becoming the world?s leader in operating systems. What exactly is open-sourced software, and what are its advantages and disadvantages? What do the consumers and developers think ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Econimics-Merger between AOL a
more than 2000 people in 17 countries. The organization has been described as "the fastest growing software company in history." Scores of individuals and companies large and small use Netscape softw ... rld Wide Web. More specifically, companies are now using Netscape for their intranets. The Netscape software line includes four families of products: · Netscape Communicator client software sui ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
In a World of Pay: Human Resource Management
ich in this case will be revolving around pay. The case is about theproblems that arose at a German software Company (Typware) when the managementdecided to hire Anne Prevost whom they consider to be ... reatened by theamount the new hire will be receiving.Case DescriptionThis case illustrates a german software company's inability to effectively compile afair compensation package for the hire of an am ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
The Evolution of the Cell Phone
he great, people from the evolution of personal computing in the 1980s: Philippe Kahn. Kahn started software company Borland; after turning Borland into one of the major early successes in Personal co ... Kahn was pushed out in 1995 in a dispute about the company's direction. He then launched cell phone software company Starfish, which played a role in his invention of the cell phone camera in 1997.A n ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
BITSTREAM Human Resource Management
ns for the candidates that let us predict the most adequate candidate for the job.Bitstream is a software company that has identified an opportunity to develop and market a new product. The company ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making
Management Verses Leadership
e Romans and rule the world. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, had a mission to create the largest software company in the world. Both had a vision and executed their plans over the course of years, ... to keep Microsoft competitive, flexible and evolving to maintain the company's market share in the software industry.A leader must also have the desire to succeed and passionately pursue that mission ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management