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        Work flow software is the ability for digital data to be transferred to anyone anywhere as long as they have an internet connection. For example let’s say you are looking to buy a car. You have a very specific kind of car in mind. You go to the dealership and ask if they have that car. The car salesman looks at their inventory, he doesn’t see the car you are looking for but, because of work flow software he is able to check other branches of the dealership. He is able to go through other dealerships inventory and check to see if they have the desired car. If one of them did. He would be able to pull up the picture and you. Then he could proceed to e-mail the other dealership and have them bring that car over for you to test drive. It wouldn’t stop there. The salesman then could send all of the information over to the accountant, who could then have all the paper work and everything needed at the touch of a button.

            The work flow software is what it says it increases work flow it enables companies to increase the amount of work they can get done, now being able to do the same amount of work they use to do in a fraction of the time and with less effort. You could share documents, pictures, music, anything that is digital data you can share at the click of a button.

            Open sourcing is software that is free. It is created by groups of computer savvy people. Who create the software and allow anyone to download it for free. Open sourcing also always anyone to add to the programs, to make them better.  All of the programmers can check the software and they can together or singly create something better then what is currently available. It is also a way for the programmers to fraternize and challenge each other.

            Outsourcing is having work being done for your company somewhere else, in the books example India. It having the work get done for cheaper somewhere else that is better suited for the work and not having to move your home base. For example you need engineers, but America doesn’t have enough of the engineers that you need or it would cost too much money. You world look around the world and see who has engineers to spare? Well India has the work force of engineers you are looking for and what would they charge to do the work? Any business man knows the cheaper you can get the work done the more profit and the better you look in the eyes of the buyers than the competition. The thing that I most like about outsourcing is that it has the potential to give every country something in common. The flat world would be all connected through doing what their own country can do the best and for the cheapest amount of money for the business. The only problem I can think of right now is, what about those countries that don’t have it quite figured out yet. Would they be left behind as the rest of the world is united by working together? I realize that this has nothing to do with software side of it, but it does get me thinking. If we can all work together to get work done the most efficient way. Would the world be a better place? Back to the point though. Outsourcing is genius. It also talks about how because of the time differences most of the software work can be done while we in America are asleep and when we go to work, it is ready for us to do our part again.

            It is interesting to see how the world has changed in just the last 20 years. It is exciting to think about what can happen. With all of the software out there it has never been easier to work together and quickly too.