Yeah, she's a master, my compliments
If you wanna love her, just deal with that
She'll never love you more than money and cigarettes
Every night's a heartbreakSupermodel, Måneskin
Over the course of several years of building software in a commercial setting. Where capital, time-to-market and labor are key factors of the building process. I have found it very useful to deconstruct software as a vector. The components of that vector is as follows:
SS = (OS, PC, Conf, Personalization, Vendors)
Open Source Code:
The community pays for it.
Proprietary Code:
The company pays for it.
Configuration:
Modifies the software and can be saved as a text file.
Personalization:
Modifies the software and is a software system itself.
Vendors:
Services that are required to run the other components.
Traditionally, the model we use to discuss software is not as granular and as a consequence makes it hard to connect - with extreme clarity - the technical work with business items like:
Operational Costs
Payroll costs
Enterprise Customer Support
Innovation Cost
This Supermodel is an exercise to improve the visualization and the time it takes to comprehend the current status of a software product and make intuitive the visualization of future versions of it.