Title
Dodge, Frank oral history
Catalog Number
102702123
Type
Document
Description
Frank Dodge describes founding McCormack & Dodge in 1969 with his partner Jim McCormack and how their decision to attempt to sell their Fixed Assets software product through direct mail advertising enabled them to become profitable after an initial struggle to find a market niche during a recession. He talks about their gradual internally-financed growth and how their decision to provide training classes to their customers at their Boston location allowed them to avoid the expense of on-site installation support. He describes the role that their customers played in encouraging them to offer annual maintenance services for a fee. He states that IBM's unbundling of software costs from hardware costs had virtually no impact on their business and that the biggest challenge they had to overcome in the early years was the resistance of data processing managers to software that wasn't developed in-house.
Date
1986-05-16
Contributor
Dodge, Frank, Interviewee
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Johnson, Luanne, Interviewer; Editor
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Boston, Mass.
Extent
24 p.
Category
Transcription
Subject
Dodge, Frank; McCormack and Dodge; McCormack, Jim; M&D; John Keane and Associates; Mail order software; IBM unbundling
Collection Title
Oral history collection