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Software industry

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The '''software industry''' includes businesses involved in the [[software development|development]], [[software maintenance|maintenance]] and [[software publisher|publication]] of [[computer software]] using any business model. The industry also includes software [[Service (economics)|service]]s, such as [[training]], [[software documentation|documentation]], and [[consultancy|consulting]].

== History ==
The software industry started in the early 1960s, almost immediately after computers ('mainframes') were first sold in a more or less standardized way. Universities and businesses began to use these computers and to seek out programs to do certain computing tasks. Many of these programs were written in-house by full-time staff programmers. Some were distributed freely between users of a particular machine for no charge. But others were done on a commercial basis, and the very first standalone software firms started in the United States in 1959-1960. Pretty soon, the computer-makers started bundling operating systems software and programming environments with their machines. IBM, which delivered most of the computers at the time, became a household name in corporate businesses worldwide.

When Digital Equipment Corporation brought a relatively low-priced micro-computer to market, it brought computing within reach of many more companies and universities worldwide, and it spawned great innovation in terms of new, powerful programming languages and methodologies. New software was built for micro-computers, and others, including IBM, followed DECs example quickly, resulting in the IBM AS400 amongst others.

The industry expanded greatly with the rise of the personal computer in the mid-1970s, which brought computing to the desktop of the office worker. In subsequent years, it also created a growing market for games, applications, and utilities. DOS, [[Microsoft]]'s first product, was the dominant operating system at the time.

In the early years of the 21st century, another successful business model has arisen for hosted software, called software as a service, or [[SaaS]]; this was at least the third time this model had been attempted. SaaS reduces the concerns about software piracy, since it can only be accessed through the Web, and by definition no client software is loaded onto the end user's PC.

== Software sectors ==
There are several types of businesses in the software industry. Infrastructure software, including operating systems, middleware and databases, is made by companies such as [[Microsoft]], [[IBM]], [[Sybase]], [[EMC]], [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] and [[VMWare]]. Enterprise software, the software that automates business processes in finance, production, logistics, sales and marketing, is made by [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]], [[SAP AG]] , [[Sage]] and [[Infor]]. Security software is made by the likes of [[Symantec]], [[Trend Micro]] and [[Kaspersky]]. Several industry-specific software makers are also among the largest software companies in the world: [[SunGard]], making software for banks, [[BlackBoard]] making software for schools, and companies like [[Qualcomm]] or [[CyberVision]] making software for telecom companies.
Other companies do contract programming to develop unique software for one particular client company, or focus on configuring and customizing suites from large vendors such as SAP or Oracle.

== Leading companies: mindshare and marketshare ==
In terms of technology leadership, the software industry has long been led by IBM. However, Microsoft became the dominant PC operating system supplier. Microsoft has never returned the stick. Other companies that have substantial mindshare (not: marketshare) in the software industry are SUN Microsystems, the developer of the Java platform, Red Hat, for its open source momentum, and Google for its Google Docs. However in terms of revenues coming from software sales, the software industry is clearly dominated by [[Microsoft]].

== Size of the industry ==
According to market researcher DataMonitor, the size of the worldwide software industry in 2008 was US$ 303.8 billion, an increase of 6.5% compared to 2007. Americas account for 42.6% of the global software market's value. DataMonitor forecasts that in 2013, the global software market will have a value of US$ 457 billion, an increase of 50.5% since 2008. <ref>[http://www.infoedge.com/product_type.asp?product=DO-4959 DataMonitor - Abstract from Global Software Industry Guide - 2008]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Computer software]]
* [[Software development]]
* [[Software publisher]]
* [[Software engineering]]
* [[World's largest software companies]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.siia.net/ Software and Information Industry Association website]
* [http://www.softwareceo.com/ SoftwareCEO] the largest online community of software executives in the world
* [http://www.softwaremag.com/ Software Magazine website]
* [http://www.siprofessionals.org/ Software Industry Professionals website]
* [http://www.sao.org/ Software Association of Oregon website]
* [http://www.theeasybee.com/directory/%20IT-Application-Management Open Social Web 3.0 Directory] – Compare and review IT/Application Management companies

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Bangalore Linux User Group

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[[Image:Bluglogo7.png|thumb|200px| BLUG logo, created by Harikrishnan C ]]
The '''Bangalore Linux Users Group''' is a [[FOSS|Free and Open Source Software]] user group.

Formed in 1998, it jumped into the public eye with its participation at [[Bangalore IT.COM]] '99 - then India's largest and most prominent technology event. The Government of Karnataka gave the BLUG an entire pavilion, where it exhibited Linux-based machines showing various applications, under the motto "Seeing is believing". This participation was a huge success, drawing people's attention to the then-nascent operating system, and earning the pavilion the title of "Crown Jewel of Bangalore IT.COM" from the local media.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}

Over the years, the BLUG participated in a number of technology events, and in 2001 [[Facilitation|facilitated]] India's [[premiere]] [[FOSS]] event - [[Linux Bangalore]]. [http://linux-bangalore.org/2001 Linux Bangalore/2001] (and its sequels - [http://linux-bangalore.org/2002 Linux Bangalore/2002], [http://linux-bangalore.org/2003 Linux Bangalore/2003] and [http://linux-bangalore.org/2004 Linux Bangalore/2004]), broke ground for the growing Linux and Open Source community in India, seeing participation by thousands of delegates from India and abroad. ''(The current edition of the event is called [[FOSS.IN]])''

In late 2000[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore/message/1489], the BLUG was registered as a not-for-profit society, under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 1960[http://web.archive.org/web/20011122053730/linux-bangalore.org/blugmemo.php].

During 2004-2005, recognising that Linux and Open Source had become mainstream technologies and had little need for generic advocacy, members of the group proposed creating smaller groups in Bangalore. The formation of Special Interest Groups ([[Special Interest Group|SIG]]) [http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/SIGs] is a natural outcome of this. Another outcome was regular "Birds of Feather" or [[BOF]] meets organised each fortnight at various locations across the city.

In February 2005, the BLUG was judged to be the [http://linuxasia2005.com/conference/lfy_awards.php "Most Popular Indian Linux User Group"] at the Linux Asia conference in New Delhi.

In mid-2005, the BLUG regrouped and resumed its activities, including meetings, while at the same time adopting the role of a staging platform for multiple FOSS activities, especially amongst students.

From late 2005 onwards, the BLUG began a campaign of talking at various technical colleges. BLUG members speak on technical and non-technical FOSS topics at student-arranged events in colleges, in an attempt to get more students (and faculty) involved in FOSS.

== External links ==
*[http://blug.in Bangalore Linux User Group]

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Archive:Wireless Mesh Networks/Testing Tools

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= Testing Tools =
== iPerf ==
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== Ekahau ==
== Cognio ==
== IXChariot ==
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Cash taxes

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Cash taxes refer to the amount paid in a period towards tax obligations. To arrive at this figure, change in deferred tax for the period is to be adjusted to the total tax amount.

The reason behind is deferred tax expensed for a period is an amortization but not the cash actually paid.

cash taxes can be derived as below.
Cash taxes = Total taxes incurred - Deferred tax amortized during the period.