- Application Software is used to perform specific tasks.
- Some application software needs to be used within a particular operating system and sometimes needs special computer.
- It is a software that is programmed or written by a programmer.
- Usually it takes up a lot of times to finish the software as we have to hire a programmer to create a new program as how we want it to be. creating a program usually takes more than 6 months to be done.
- it needs a lot of specialties and expertise from the programmer skills to do the program which is requested by any organisation.
- it is like writing a suite of programs using certain language to perform the required tasks
OFF-THE-SHELF SOFTWARE
- It is a ready-made software which is available and can be bought from any computer shop easily.
- it is cheaper than hiring a programmer to do it.
- it is like buying a database package and build a customised application to suit your exact requirements.
