Computer History Museum

Grad, Burton and Hugh Williams oral history

In this interview, Hugh Williams and Burton Grad, members of IBM's unbundling task force, describe IBM's changing view of unbundling from a legal necessity to a business opportunity. They discuss the criteria used to determine which programs would be priced separately and which would remain unbundled with the hardware cost and how IBM's business model changed as a result of unbundling. Williams was a senior technical advisor to a number of executives in IBM's System Development Division. Grad worked with applications software development in the Data Processing Division.

Item Details

Date
1985-12-09 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102658225
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Hugh Williams (Interviewee)
Luanne Johnson (Editor)
Luanne Johnson (Interviewer)
Burt Grad (Interviewee)
Category
Transcript
Extent
23 p.
Place of publication
USA/NY/Chappaqua
Language
English
Acquisition number
X4562.2008
Subject
IBM Unbundling, DOS, CICS
Archive collection
CHM Oral History Collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection