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Information Technology Networking Assignment

   

Added on  2020-05-03

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NETWORKING1Task 1A valuable asset in the software market is the technology platform. A propriety softwarecan contribute to a company’s fortune. Some instances include Microsoft Windows, IntelProcessors, and Sony Play Stations. A company that leads in a certain platform market holds thepotential to uplift itself to a very high level. But for now it is necessary for the company toexpand its market. Also, there could be the existence of an open source technology platformwhich may offer tough competition to Windows in the OS market. The aim of this paper is toobserve and study the differences among the 3 leading proprietary and open source platforms.The platforms chosen here are:Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows, or just Windows, is a chargeable proprietary Graphical UserInterface based operating system, developed, marketed and sold by Microsoft Corp. It iscategorised into several branches, each of which is subjected to a specific user type. Activefamilies of windows are: Windows NT, Windows Embedded or Windows Mobile.Microsoft proposed a Graphical User Interface based operating system on November1985, which was structured to work as a shell for the MS DOS, in order to catch up to the GUIMarket. Almost 90% of the market has been covered by Windows, thus overtaking Mac OS,which was introduced in 1984. The fundamental reason was a ‘no bond’ with any specifichardware company for the Operating System. In spite of this there has been a remarkabledepreciation in the sale of Windows, making Android OS, an open source platform the newvictor of the market.OS XMarketed and developed by Apple Inc. OS X is series of GUI based UNIX operatingsystem, and holds the second largest position in terms of sale right after Windows. This hasbecome the proprietary platform of use by Apple ever since it originated. OS 9 was thepredecessor of OS X which shared a similar success story. The chief reason for the success orpopularity in terms of its efficiency lies in the security it offers which is way better than thatoffered by Windows.UbuntuSimilar to the others mentioned before Ubuntu is also a GUI based Linus operatingsystem. It could be used by anyone as it is an open-sourced platform. Its code is available onlineto any individual in need of it. That code can be easily modified and fed back to the communitywebsite thus supplying with many community versions of it. The sales of the services related tothe OS are the earning areas of the company though they are of very low charges. Ubuntuactually encourages people to use and distribute software, free of cost.

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