Will Software piracy improve the business?

I think it is a way of expanding their business. Now consider an individual (student or professional) download the pirated copy and used in his personal computer or laptop, used the software and learned the application. He knows how to use the application to some extend.  Thus a large number of students/ professionals find their way by working in the pirated software

A software firm looking for a professional who can work on the particular software

This software firm will not use a pirate copy in its organization or the end customer will not use the pirated copy.

End customers may not aware of Technologies and software’s, they  may leave every thing to software firm. In this case software firm may prefer resource (professional) rich technology

Another part is the software firms have less cost to train the professionals in terms of time, in terms of technology etc. since the professionals know few concepts already. The software firms may prefer the original copy of that software pirated software. Another way is to give free edition with limited features to students or to individual and extend the feature for some cost as business edition

Cloud Computing Introduction

Cloud Computing:

Providing everything as a service, simply we can say that doing your digitized work through cloud (Internet), without having any software and hardware just by having internet alone. Everything can be accessed through cloud, from the data to the application(which manipulates the data), where they are maintained in the central remote server.

Simple Characteristic:

·         Autonomic computing

·         Client –Server model

·         Grid Computing

·         Mainframe computer

·         Utility computing

·         Peer to Peer

Great examples for this are Google, Yahoo , Zoho Office and Amazon

Types:

1)       Web-based cloud computing

2)       Software as Service

Providing Application as service such as (accounting, collaboration, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP),  invoicing, human resource management (HRM), content management (CM) and service desk management).

SaaS has been incorporated into the strategy of all leading enterprise software companies.

3)    Platform as Service

Providing Platform (installing the application without cost of buying and managing the platform- virtual platform)

4)      Infrastructure as Service

Providing Storage , networking  and  hosting service

5)    Managed Service

Managed service is an application exposed to IT rather than to end-users, such as a virus scanning service for e-mail or an application monitoring service (which Mercury, among others, provides). Managed security services delivered by SecureWorks, IBM, and Verizon fall into this category, as do such cloud-based anti-spam services as Postini, recently acquired by Google. Other offerings include desktop management services, such as those offered by CenterBeam or Everdream.

6)     Service commerce

   
Providing online transactions, fund transferring application (API) like Yahoo finance, Google finance and other banking APIs to transfer fund