Digital economy refers to the wide use of information technology in aspects of the economy including internal operations of an organization
Operating system is the software component of computer system that is tasked with the management and coordination of the activities and sharing of the resources of the computer
Firmware is fixed programs and data structures that internally control electronic devices
Software entropy is the tendency of systems to destabilize and become chaotic over time.
Function point is a unit of measurement used to express the amount of business functionality an information system avails to a user.
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