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Information systems that operate within the workgroup sphere of influence of influence support the firm in its interaction with customers, suppliers, shareholders, competitors, special-interest groups, the financial community, and government agencies.

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Documentation are sequences of instructions for the computer.

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Discuss the growth in mobile application software.

A(n) _____ allows applications to make use of the operating system.

Utility programs help to perform maintenance, correct problems, merge and sort sets of data, keep track of computer jobs, and compress files of data.

Enterprise application software is designed to support teamwork, but only works if the people are in the same location.

Red Hat Software offers a ________ network operating system.

Yahoo has developed its own Linux-based operating system called Chrome OS.

________ is IBM's first 64-bit enterprise operating system with very little downtime.

A storage device that contains some or all of the operating system is often called a ________ because you can use it to start the computer if you have problems with the primary hard disk.

The use of middleware to connect disparate systems has evolved into an approach for developing software and systems called ______.

Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++, Visual C# are examples of ________ programming tools.

Embedded operating systems are typically designed to perform specific tasks.

When RIM introduced the ________ smartphone in 2002, the mobile phone's capabilities were vastly expanded.

Google has developed its own mobile operating system called _____.

_____ allows more than one person to use a computer system at the same time.

Microsoft Office, Lotus Symphony, and Open Office are examples of a(n) _____ that contains several programs top perform word processing, spreadsheet analysis, database, address book, calendar, and other applications.

_____ is a popular choice for embedded systems because it is free and highly configurable.

What are some of the disadvantages of using proprietary software?

_____ is a powerful backup tool that allows Apple computer users to view their systems as it looked in the past and resurrect deleted files.