its parts. Friction causes wear and tear that is proportional to the amount of use. Likewise, when it comes to software … one should not expect it to behave any differently. One must expect a set of errors in the software that cannot be … “friction” between, on the one hand the necessary but hardly specifiable complexity of software, and on the other hand the …

Rather than look to migration guides for business, or to barriers to adoption of Open Source Software, perhaps we … should look to understand what it is that organisations need from their software, it is not just the feature set of the … software feature set, but are interrelated to the needs and pre-existing conditions of the organisation. This paper looks to …

The Bioconductor project is an initiative for the collaborative creation of the extensible software for computational … innovative software, reducing barriers to entry into interdisciplinary scientific research, and promoting the achievement of …

undermines the assumption that just because software life would run on a computer that it must be reducible to a computer program …

information and communication technologies, especially software. These characteristics include rapid technological change, which … production of software is negligible, efficient manufacturing is not an issue. This paper shows how our understanding of late …-late industrialization may be broadened by drawing on the experience of the Indian software industry. (J Asia Pac Econ/GIGA) …