Book description
Do you know what is the real cost of your software? Before you reach for a calculator, be forewarned that it's a trick question. Even technology industry analysts and seasoned IT executives have difficulty putting a hard figure on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of today's enterprise application solutions. What makes the equation so tricky is the sheer number of variables that must be factored in, many of which cannot be lined up in a neat column and reconciled, such as issues of security, availability, performance, problem resolution and change management. The End of Software: Transforming Your Business for the On Demand Future, by Dr. Timothy Chou, is a groundbreaking book for business managers and executives that challenges conventional approaches to business software and proposes new alternatives to managing and maintaining the systems that companies depend on.
Read What Industry Experts Have to Say:
"Whether you rely on computer software to run your business, create software solutions, or invest in software companies, you are facing the shift from software as a product to software as a service. In The End of Software, Dr. Timothy Chou makes the case for Software on Demand and shows you who's already out there creating and using this new model." Fred Magner, Chief Information Officer, Unocal Corporation
"As a pioneer of the On Demand delivery model, Dr. Chou challenges certain conventions long held by the software industry. The End of Software provokes industry participants to re-think how big software should be packaged, sold and delivered in the future." Stephen Wong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Embarcadero Technologies
"Dr. Timothy Chou's book The End of Software presents a logical argument for the shift from selling and buying software, or the promise of the value that software represents, to selling and buying the actual value that software can bring to a user. This is very persuasive, especially when you consider the legacy of software vendors, who are notorious for over-promising and under-delivering. As Dr. Chou so clearly understands (and why shouldn't he-he's lived it), this new delivery method simply makes sense. But the world is often slow to change; as keen observers of the technology industry, we'll be watching closely." John S. DiFucci, Senior Software Analyst, Managing Director, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- What readers are saying about The End of Software
- Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Why Does IT Cost So Much?
- What Has the Industry Done About IT?
- Location, Location, Location
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It's About the Performance
- Cost of Poor Performance
- Throw Another Box at It
- How Much Do You Need?
- I Want It Now
- Enter DebitCredit
- Waste Not, Want Not
- An Appropriate Response
- The Server Is Where?
- Virtual Reality
- The Geeky Part
- What the Other Guys Are Up To
- Planetary Scale Computing
- Query on Demand: Google
- Us, Too
- Automatic Performance Management
- Conclusion
-
You Can Never Be Too Available
- Are You Saying That 99% Isn't Good Enough?
- Making Yourself More Available
- Call the Exterminator
- Beyond the Bugs
- The State of the Art
- Recovery-Oriented Computing
- Building for Recovery
- Suit of Armor
- Fixing the People
- Can I Have a Do-over?
- Error Injection
- High Availability in Real Life
- When the Unthinkable Happens
- Batten Down the Hatches
- No Problem, No Worries
- The Quick Change Artist
- Repeal Brooks's Law
- New Kids on the Block
- The Debate Is the Rate
- Index
Product information
- Title: End of Software, The: Finding Security, Flexibility, and Profit in the On Demand Future
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2004
- Publisher(s): Sams
- ISBN: 0672326981
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