In-class discussion questions for Feb 11

We will discuss these questions in-class on Wed, Feb 11. Do not post comments on this.

• When would you buy your own home instead of renting? What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying a house?
• What is a cloud computing?
• Why did we just discuss about buying vs. renting?
• When does it make sense to go to cloud?
• Why would a company like to use IaaS such as Amazon Web Services? Why would be the reasons not to use IaaS?
• Is Open Source Software really free?
• Will the quality of OSS be better than proprietary software?
• Which is more secure – open-source or proprietary software?