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Green IT is a mission to reduce carbon emissions of information technology. Although immediate savings come from hardware, software also plays an important role. Since a software has a life cycle, it creates direct and indirect carbon emissions: it has a carbon footprint.
In this paper we present an approach to analyse software carbon footprints. We analyse a typical software life cycle step by step and give estimates of how large carbon footprints each step produces. A software vendor that claims to be green needs to show that his software has a small carbon footprint. From the green software point of view, it matters how to develop and deliver software, and how usable the software is.
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Taina, J. (2010). How Green Is Your Software?. In: Tyrväinen, P., Jansen, S., Cusumano, M.A. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13633-7_13
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