By: Heather Shriner

New Operating System: Snow Leopard

Cost: $29

Upgrade to a Mac OS X10.6

The upgrade works best with all of Apple-APPS, but for some is a regretful investment

The product was released a month earlier than developers expected

Who is able to use it ?Apples own apps-mail, calendar, and i-tunesFirefox Photoshop (newest)

Who is having problems using it?iStat Menus- a Mac system monitorGrowl: universal-app pop-up notifierCoolIris- plug- in for FirefoxX-Marks…………

Hardware – desktops, laptops,

PDAs, large computing

equipments

Software – operating systems,

application programs

Data – facts and figures entered

into computers

Procedures – how the other four

components are used

People – users,

technologists, IS support

SMART Information- Is this new upgrade creating SMART information systems that are: sufficient, money-worth, accurate, relative, and timely?

Accurate – entering incorrect sales data creates false information.Timely – knowing that production doesn’t have enough raw materials for next week’s schedule won’t be useful information three weeks from now.Relevant – if your boss needs to know how many shipments were late last month, you shouldn’t give him a list of all items that shipped. Just barely Sufficient – if your boss wants to know how to send an email, you shouldn’t teach her how to build a computer.Worth its cost (Money) – is it cost worthy to map out the entire U.S. if you only need one state?

“for some people it is an operating system upgrade which means a step backward in the pleasure and smoothness of using the platform”

“the early release is making this impossible to accomplish the daily jobs & responsibilities demanded of me”

Incompatibilities with the existing apps are causing the information system process to slow down, while resulting in inefficiency.

Kroenke, David M. Using MIS. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2009.

Needleman, Rafe. “Regretful upgrade: Snow Leopard

Incompatibilities. ZDNet News: 1 September 2009.