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software

the PROGRAMS or instructions that make a COMPUTER system perform particular data-processing tasks. Some software makes the computer system operate while other software packages like SPREADSHEETS or WORD PROCESSING provide solutions to particular business problems.

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Vendor electronically downloads the software for the customer.

Virginia sales tax treatment of electronically provided software

In his paper, Raymond discusses the historical model for software development and compares it to building cathedrals, a slow and laborious effort with exacting methods carefully applied.

The fortress and the bazaar: open-source and DOD software

Can an exploration of the evolution of the anti-virus software category provide us with insight into "the next anti-virus"?

CDP: the next generation of backup

There is so much excellent market research software that it is almost impossible to know where to begin.

Solutions for marketing strategies: there has never been a better array of software to help you support your integrated marketing strategy

It is software, though, that is playing an increasingly decisive role in the realization of electronic innovations.

The challenges of electronics

"Worldwide, one out of every three copies of software in use today has been obtained illegally," said BSA President and CEO Robert Holleyman.

One third of all software in use still pirated, major study finds

Melyx Corporation has a comprehensive range of flexible and affordable software applications for facilities of all types and sizes.

Information technology

Managing software licenses can cause headaches for IT managers, but it can also cause migraines for financial executives who may ultimately feel the impact if their companies somehow use software they shouldn't be using and risk being fined hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Are you on top of your software licensing? Recognition of the issue, and use of license tracking software, can go a long way toward cutting costs and warding off fines from vendors able to show licensing violations

Open-source code, however, is made on programmers writing software and giving it away on the Internet so that everyone can use it and improve on it.

Standing up to Redmond: government has a choice to make on software spending, and it should be free to do so

"Our joint customers care about the recoverability of data first and foremost," said Laura Sanders, vice president, IBM Tivoli Storage Software. "We are pleased to have SQL-BackTrack leverage the capabilities of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager."

BMC DEBUTS PART OF SMARTDBA DATA MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Open source applications can also complement other software products your schools are using, including many of my favorite free resources listed in the sidebar.

Free and open source software: new programs offer alternatives for districts

Cal-Bay has also purchased Maki's IPM software, which is being re-branded as CTRL Build (pronounced Control Build).