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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2002
Burton Grad
Many people believe that one pivotal event in the growth of the business software products market was IBMs decision, in 1969, to price its software and services separately from its hardware. The authors recollections shed light on the internal process and surrounding business climate that led to IBMs decision.
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2007
Burton Grad
VisiCalc, an instantly updated spreadsheet software product, is often credited with being largely responsible for the widespread acceptance of personal computers in the early 1980s. VisiCalc met with unrivaled and virtually immediate success when introduced in 1979 yet was superseded in just a few years. This article examines the factors behind the creation and the demise of this remarkable product.
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2013
Burton Grad
This special issue (part 2 of a series began with the special issue in October-December 2012) tells the history of how IBM and several new, independent software companies built companies that supplanted the database management system companies and their DBMS models in both query-oriented usage and in many transaction-processing applications. The story of this transformation is told in this issue of the Annals, which describes how each of these pioneering relational database management companies developed and marketed their products to meet the relational challenge and how well they succeeded. The result was explosive business growth and creation of five companies with more than
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2012
Burton Grad
1 billion in sales. This special issue focuses on the growth of four of the leading RDBMS companies, with recollections by the pioneers about the history of the companies that they worked for: IBM, Oracle, Informix, and Sybase.
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2012
Burton Grad; Luanne Johnson
Database management system (DBMS) products became the foundation for many (some say most) of the core applications in every industry, commercial business, and government agency. They became the engine that drove the sale of mainframe computers during the 1970s and for many years afterward. And yet their success was soon overtaken by relational DBMSs. One of the most interesting stories in the history of software products is how the new relational model, published in 1970 by E.F. (Ted) Codd, spawned a whole new set of independent software companies. Together with IBM, they developed the RDBMSs that supplanted the DBMS companies and their DBMS models in both query-oriented usage and in many transaction-processing applications. This Annals special issue tells the story of how this transformation began and describes how three companies pioneered the development of relational database management products to meet the relational challenge and build the foundation for the growth of a multibillion dollar industry.
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2002
Burton Grad; Luanne Johnson
According to Software Magazine, the top 500 companies in the computer software and services industry generated
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2018
Burton Grad; David Hemmendinger
640 billion dollars in revenue in 2012 and employed more than 4.1 million people who design, program, maintain, sell, or support computer software and services. Responding to the significance of the industry in 2000 and anticipating its continued growth, the Annals Editorial Board made a decision at that time that it should give greater emphasis to articles on the history of both the technological advances made in software and the companies and people who had built and were continuing to grow this vital industry. Despite these ongoing efforts, the authors are still concerned about providing an ongoing supply of the personal recollections and company records that are critical source materials needed to develop an historical analysis. It is necessary to encourage historians and practitioners to not only continue but to expand the process of collecting, preserving, and publishing the history of the software industry as it continues to morph and evolve during the 21st century.
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2006
Paul E. Ceruzzi; Burton Grad
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2007
Paul E. Ceruzzi; Burton Grad
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | 2003
Burton Grad
On 22–23 May 2017, the Software Industry Special Interest Group (SIG) and the Center for Software History—both part of the Computer History Museum (CHM)—conducted a two-day Desktop Publishing Software Pioneer Meeting at the CHM in Mountain View, California. Many of those who had contributed to the technological developments that made the desktop publishing industry possible and the founders of almost all of the desktop publishing software companies participated. The goal of this meeting was to capture the recollections of those who had built the industry so as to provide a basis for future analysis by historians and use by researchers and those interested in these significant achievements. There were nine workshops during the meeting; each session was videotaped and recorded, and both the videos and the edited transcripts will be available through the CHM website (www.computerhistory.org). This was the 13th software pioneer meeting that the Software Industry SIG had conducted on a wide range of software industry topics. The workshop sessions were each about 1 to 1 1/2 hours long:
