Artifact Details

Title

RAMIS and NOMAD : National Computer Software Systems, Inc. (NCSS) conference call

Catalog Number

102658182

Type

Document

Description

Five of the National CSS principals participated in a recorded telephone conference call with a moderator addressing the history of the company's use of RAMIS and development of NOMAD. The licensing of RAMIS from Mathematica and the reasons for building their own product are discussed as well as the marketing of RAMIS for developing applications and then the ongoing revenue from using these applications. The development of NOMAD is discussed in detail along with its initial introduction into the marketplace as a new offering not as a migration from RAMIS. The later history of NOMAD is reviewed, including the failure to build a successor product and the inability to construct a viable PC version of NOMAD.

Date

2005-05-20

Contributor

Bayles, Dick, Participant
Boykin, Judd, Participant
Feinleib, Harold, Participant
Grad, Burt, Moderator
Grad, Burt, Editor
Pisarro, Nicholas Jr., Participant
Rawlings, Nicholas, Participant

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Telephone conference

Extent

54 p.

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Subject

Bayles, Dick; Boykin, Judd; Feinleib, Harold; Pisarro, Nick; Rawlings, Nick; Orenstein, Richard; Glazer, Richard; Weissman, Robert; National CSS; NCSS; Dun & Bradstreet; RAMIS; NOMAD; Mathematica; Cohen, Gerry; VP/CCS; VM/CMS; COBOL Debug; FORTRAN Debug; FOCUS; Information Builders, Inc.; IBI

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Software Industry Special Interest Group

Lot Number

X3738.2007