The World Is Flat: Flatteners 3 & 4 questions
a. The software industry created and popularized SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) which enabled the exchange of e-mail messages between heterogeneous computer systems. This protocol was then stretched further, and TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol) was developed. TCP/IP took the data from your Web pages around the Internet from computer to computer and Web site to Web site. People were then able to exchange things other than simple e-mail and word documents.
b. AJAX is short for "asynchronous JavaScript and XML" and is a Web development technique that allows complex Internet business applications to be embedded onto a Web page, then called up with a single browser. It allows you to do over the Internet all the word, data, and business processing you would normally do on a PC with conventional software. This gives organizations a competitive edge because people who want to start their own business have enough resources now and have the ability to market their product almost as effectively as big businesses. Small up-and-coming organizations are now challenging the larger organizations.
c. Open Source is called Community Developed Software because people make their source code available online, and anyone can download it for free for their own use. Everyone in a "community" such as a chat room or message board, can share their source code and everyone in the community can update and/or modify the code. It is a collaborative effort.
d. Today Apache is one of the most powerful open source tools. It powers about two-thirds of the Web sites in the world. It can also be downloaded from anywhere in the world. People who want added capabilities for their Web servers can buy products that attach right on top of Apache, using Apache as the foundation.
e. Blended models of software are probably the future because for a complex system to be constantly freshened, debugged, and improved, there has to be economy around it. Open-source community developers do not have all the time in the world to put into developing code for free. There must be some economic incentive for someone in the community to continue developing the code.
f. The author himself has obviously been impacted by blogging, because he writes "I now read bloggers...as part of my daily information-gathering routine." Major newspapers and news networks are being seen quoting from blogs and getting some of their "eye-witness accounts" from blogs.
b. AJAX is short for "asynchronous JavaScript and XML" and is a Web development technique that allows complex Internet business applications to be embedded onto a Web page, then called up with a single browser. It allows you to do over the Internet all the word, data, and business processing you would normally do on a PC with conventional software. This gives organizations a competitive edge because people who want to start their own business have enough resources now and have the ability to market their product almost as effectively as big businesses. Small up-and-coming organizations are now challenging the larger organizations.
c. Open Source is called Community Developed Software because people make their source code available online, and anyone can download it for free for their own use. Everyone in a "community" such as a chat room or message board, can share their source code and everyone in the community can update and/or modify the code. It is a collaborative effort.
d. Today Apache is one of the most powerful open source tools. It powers about two-thirds of the Web sites in the world. It can also be downloaded from anywhere in the world. People who want added capabilities for their Web servers can buy products that attach right on top of Apache, using Apache as the foundation.
e. Blended models of software are probably the future because for a complex system to be constantly freshened, debugged, and improved, there has to be economy around it. Open-source community developers do not have all the time in the world to put into developing code for free. There must be some economic incentive for someone in the community to continue developing the code.
f. The author himself has obviously been impacted by blogging, because he writes "I now read bloggers...as part of my daily information-gathering routine." Major newspapers and news networks are being seen quoting from blogs and getting some of their "eye-witness accounts" from blogs.
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