Timesharing and Remote Processing Services Meeting Session #4: Business Models: Making Money
<p>This session explored the different business models that TS/RPS companies created in terms of packaging and pricing their services and the reasons for their selection. Topics covered include: • How well these various business models worked • The strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches • Whether the initial approaches were modified after the start of the companies and, if so, how they were changed • What the revenue structure looked like over the first few years • What the principal cost elements were: marketing and sales, development, operations, customer service, management, finance and administration • Whether additional financing was needed and, if so, from what sources • The effect that changes in the hardware performance and pricing on the business models • Sales compensation policies • The approximate amount of revenues earned by various timesharing companies in the mid- to late-1970s</p>
Item Details
- Date
- 2009-06-02 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102702886
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Kenneth Ross (Participant)
Frank Belvin (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Thomas Haigh (Historian)
Luanne Johnson (Editor)
Ann Hardy (Participant)
Dave Schmidt (Participant)
Dick Bayles (Participant)
Nicholas Rawlings (Participant)
Rick Crandall (Participant)
Mike Humphries (Participant)
Chris McDonald (Historian)
Doug Jerger (Participant)
Brook, Chris (Participant)
Norm Hardy (Participant)
Myers, Gary (Participant)
Stein, Jeffery (Participant)
Mike Wyman (Participant)
Dick Lowenstein (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Co-Chair) - Category
- Transcript
Oral History - Format
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Extent
- 42 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X5386.2009
- Subject
- Tymshare, Scientific Data Systems (SDS) 940, Ross Systems, Interactive Data Corporation, On-Line Business Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Timesharing, Keydata, RAMIS, General Electric Information Services (GEIS), Comshare, Service Bureau Corporation (SBC), National CSS, PDP-11, PDP-10
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection