Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry has been recognized by the Association of American Publishers as the outstanding achievement in Professional and Scholarly Publishing in the Business, Management, and Accounting category for 2003. Written by David G. Messerschmitt, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley and Clemens Szyperski of Microsoft Research, this book examines software technology and the myriad issues that surround its dissemination and use from various perspectives.