Friday, February 1, 2008

Insourcing

Insourcing
By: Wikipedia.com

What is Insourcing?
By: Whatis.TechTarget.com

Insourcing is as the name suggests, the opposite of out sourcing. Another way of putting it would be contracting in. Normally a company would make a contract outside of itself. I.E. if Apple gave Google a contract saying that Google could upload music to a page and include it in their music page. But Google would give Apple fifty percent of its revenues from tracks downloaded from that particular page. However if Apple decided to say... give the contract to the branch of their own company I.E the part that handles the webpages. Then the main part of the company could take a part of the profits and let the branch use the rest to improve and repair the system.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Supply Chain

Supply Chain
By: Wikipedia.com

What is Supply Chain Management
By: Techtarget.com

First off a supply chain is how a company obtains the raw materials it needs to manufacture a product and then sending it to the consumer. This is also called a logistics network. And NO! There isn't a difference! I checked... The whole baisis for this is to satisfy an online order.
The weird thing is that most companies say that they already have them assembled!

Off Shoring

OffShoring
By: Wikipedia.com

What Is OffShoring
By: Sourcingmag.com

OffShoring describes the relocation of buisness processess from one country to another. Okay I totally copied what wikipedia said but, its a complicated subject!
In my own words: its when a company takes product and tries to move across seas.
One of the big countries in this category is... China. Wait. China? My history teacher said that China ids an underdeveloped country... Hmmm.... Maybe they're not so underdevloped as we thought? On the topic, offshoring is commonly done to save money and the company often offshores to a country where they can do what they want at a lower cost. Interesting, huh?

Sourcingmag.com says that its a type of outsourcing... hmmm... I got it! Maybe its both! Ha! But maybe its not... Ohhh...

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Out Sourcing

Out Sourcing
By: wikipedia.com

What Is Out Sourcing

By: WiseGeek.com

Out Sourcing is what a large company does to reduce the cost of their sevices. I.E. help the numbers that they put on your cell phone bills. we think that we're talking to smeone in... Sacramento... when we're really talking to someone in the Philipines (that's JUST an example).
Most of the time its done because the minimum wage is lower in that country. So... its ALL about money. The way that I see it: its human resource expliotation. The companies don't even have to provide benefits to the workers... NOT FAIR!!!

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Open Sourcing

Open Sourcing
By: Wikipedia.com

Open Source
By: Wikipedia.com

Before anyone says "Hey, Open Source is way different from Open Sourcing!" and I get a flood of complaints, its important to know what something is. In any form. Noun, Verb or Adjective. Open Source is when a programing code is made openly available to the public. Meaning EVERYONE can use it. Examples would be: Mozila Firefox and Netscape Browser. An Open Source License allows the one with the license to EDIT and REDISTRIBUTE the code in question. By 'one' I mean a company or an individual. What most people don't know is that with a license you don't have to repay the origonal author(s). If the Source Code is made avaiable to the public domain then OSI can put its Service Mark on it. That means that it is officially in the public domain and can be used by anyone. Just like the sidewalk!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

What Is Workflow Software?!

What Is Workflow Software
By: WiseGeek.com

Workflow Management Software
By: NextpageInc

(sighs) Funny how all the things that make our life easier- no one gives you a straight answer to what the f*** it is. Check out the results for a Google.com Search.
Anyhow, Workflow Software. (sighs) The articles that I read ( the ones above) gave me slight headache or maybe its just my chemestry homework... In short terms Workflow Software is a program that does something that makes anything that we do, easier and consequently faster. If I had Software like that that would do my chemestry homework FOR me, I might have a little less of a headache right now. But I guess I'll take a bit of Tylenol and finish it later. its the stuff that sends Spam mail to the trash in your e-mail account. They also create PDF Files. Thus the reason they're so important to the funtion and speed of the modern computers. Wait. Why are PDF Files sooo important? (if you went to the site I linked you'd have your answer and if you already did sorry for reviewing) They make it so you can share files even if someone uses different software.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Netscape IPO

Netscape
By; Wikipedia.com

A Beautiful Attitude
By; Quentin Hardy

First what's an IPO? To answer it: an IPO is an Inial Public Offering. Hence the acronym IPO. This is the first move that most young companies make to expand and get the capital they desire to put their plans into action. Although its not limmited to JUST small companies; some private owned buisnesses use IPo's too.

Netscape was "born at the dawn of the computer age." Precisely on April 4, 1994. The founders, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark, released Mosaic Netscape 0.9 on October 13, 1994. They took on the name Netscape Navigator on November 14, 1994. And their first year was rather sucessful.

In 2003 however the Netscape group was disbanded. Everything that they had worked for was gone. But the Netscape Browser 7.0 was released the year after, on August 18, 2004.Their most recent version is 8.o

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