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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION : COMMON PERCEPTIONS ABOUT SOFTWARE = 1
ONE SOFTWARE FROM A COST PERSPECTIVE = 5
 1.1 Defining Software from a Cost Perspective = 5
 1.2 Software versus Hardware Costs = 9
 1.3 Economic Benefits from Software = 15
TWO THE SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE = 20
 2.1 The Life Cycle Explained = 20
 2.2 Identifying Critical Factors = 24
 2.3 The Critical Factors of Programmer Productivity = 30
 2.4 The Critical Factors of Software Maintenance = 34
THREE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT = 37
 3.1 The Software Environment's Thirty-Year Envolution = 38
 3.2 The Transaction Processor = 40
 3.3 The Complexity of Execution Environments = 45
 3.4 Hardware Economics and Its Influence on Software = 49
 3.5 The Microcomputer's Influence on Software = 51
 3.6 Office Automation's Influence on Software = 55
 3.7 Is Software Getting Hard? = 57
FOUR THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY = 61
 4.1 Identifying Software Productivity Issues = 61
 4.2 Limits to Productivity Improvements = 66
 4.3 The Impact on the EDP Budget = 69
 4.4 Other Approaches to Increasing Productivity = 72
FIVE MANAGING THE SOFTWARE PROCESS = 77
 5.1 Production of Software Is a Problem = 77
 5.2 Production Control Through Inspection = 80
 5.3 Software Compatibility or Portability = 85
SIX SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEMS = 90
 6.1 The Application Generator = 90
 6.2 The MARK IV Story = 94
 6.3 Ada, The Programming System for the Eighties = 104
 6.4 The Taxonomy of Implementation Systems = 109
 6.5 Examples of Implementation Systems = 115
 6.6 User Friendly and Friendly Usage = 126
SEVEN THE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PHENOMENON = 130
 7.1 Clarifying Data Management Systems = 130
 7.2 Prerequisites for Using Data Management Systems = 132
 7.3 User's Point of View of Data Management Systems = 136
 7.4 Data Management for the End User = 138
EIGHT IMPACT OF MICROCOMPUTERS ON SOFTWARE = 146
 8.1 The Pervasiveness of Microcomputing = 146
 8.2 The Challenge of Increasing Computer Literacy = 152
 8.3 Serious Software for Microcomputers = 154
NINE ACQUIRING SOFTWARE = 158
 9.1 Advice to the Software Buyer = 158
 9.2 Software Make or Buy Economics = 161
 9.3 Software Buying Issues for the User = 166
 9.4 How to Find software = 169
TEN THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY = 174
 10.1 Commercial Software = 174
 10.2 Commercial Software Values = 179
 10.3 The Software Product Industry = 182
 10.4 The Software Product Economic Model = 189
 10.5 The Economic of Software Distribution for Microcomputers = 197
 10.6 Software Sales Awards : The major and the Minor Leagues = 203
ELEVEN SOFTWARE AS SEEN THROUGH TERMINOLOGY = 209
 11.1 The Computer Industry Jargon = 209
 11.2 Status of the Old Terminology = 212
 11.3 Status of the New Terminology = 221
TWELVE THE NEW SOFTWARE ECONOMICS = 227
 12.1 The Evolving Software Economics for Large Computers = 227
 12.2 The Rapid Evolving of Software Dominance for Microcomputers = 233
CONCLUSION = 238
APPENDIX A Terms and Acronyms = 239
APPENDIX B Software Product Directories and Catalogs = 241
APPENDIX C Computer Organizations and Companies = 243
BIBLIOGRAPHY = 245
SUBJECT INDEX = 249
SUPPLIER INDEX = 257
PRODUCT INDEX = 259