Open Systems - 1998 Assignment

THAMES VALLEY UNIVERSITY
School of Business

MODULE
ASSESSMENT

FOR
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SOUTH EAST ASIA PROGRAMME

ACCREDITED DEGREE PROGRAMME

LEVEL 3 MODULE

OPEN SYSTEMS
(SYS3040)
ASSIGNMENT

SYS3040
Open Systems
South~East Asia

Assignment - Spring 1998
Set by:    M. Gandoff
Moderated by: S. Codington

Notes
1.    Please ensure that your work is handed in attached to both pages of this document, with your surname/family name clearly indicated in the box above.

2. Please look at the criteria. Do not try to do anything that does not satisfy criteria. You will not receive any credit for doing so.

3. You will receive this assignment early on in the semester. If you are to receive useful feedback on what you have done in time to use it for revision, bear in mind that there will be a delay of several weeks between the time you submit your assignment and the tine it has been assessed and double assessed This means that you should summit the assignment to your centre no later than week 6 of the semester.

What you have to do:

1.

Provide an explanation (150-250 words each) of the terms highlighted in the following extract. Provide suitable examples to illustrate your explanations:

The key to open Systems would seem to be attempts to ensure that systems can interoperate at all levels.

In many cases, there is a middleware solution which can overcome fundamental system or application differences.

Many organisations have spent considerable resources migrating from a proprietary environment to one that is more open.

When considering the long term usage of applications, operating. Systems and other software, it is important to try and ensure that systems and their software components are portable.

Developments in scaleable operating systems have helped to provide some degree of future-proofing for system developers and implementers.

You should provide explanations of the terms. Examples of specific hardware or
ware products wifl probably not be particularly useful.

Criteria:

A third class answer (40, 45)	Offers explanations with examples that show some understanding of at least 4 of the terms and their relevance with some attempt to explain the others.
A lower second answer (50, 55)	is significantly better than a third class answer but does not fully meet the criteria for an upper second answer.
An upper second answer (60, 65)	Explain all the terms clean with examples. Explanations also show the inter-relationship between some of the terms
A first class answer (70-100)	meets all the criteria for an upper second answer and demonstrates significant critical innovative and/or creative understanding of the problem environment

A lower second