concentration ratio? What is the Herfindahl Index? 5 Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis on the Software Services Industry and the major players in these boxes 6 Existing Rivalry: 7 Bargaining power of the suppliers: 7 Bargaining power of the buyers: 7 Threat of Substitutes: 8 Threat of New Entrants: 8 Forces to assess software services industry 9 Most important force in software service
aCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ________________________________________ 1.1 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal. A computer program that runs in a distributed system is called a distributed