Computer History Museum

Timesharing and Remote Processing Services Meeting Session #5: Growth in Applications

<p>Besides selling the use of the computer cycles and the use of the timesharing and remote processing operating systems, each of the companies developed certain specialties in terms of markets and applications. This session is aimed at exploring what markets were chosen and what applications were developed or acquired in order to serve these markets effectively. Topics covered include: &bull; What markets were chosen and why? &bull; What applications were developed in house? &bull; What applications were acquired from third parties? &bull; Did the focus on applications change the market direction or the business profit model? &bull; What was the balance between engineering/technical and business applications? &bull; What was done to provide services to programmers in terms of program development, testing and debugging? &bull; Were professional services provided to support these applications?</p>

Item Details

Date
2009-06-02 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102702887
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
PDF
Credit line
Software Industry Special Interest Group
Extent
30 p.
Place of publication
USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X5386.2009
Subject
SDS 940 (Computer), National CSS, Comshare, General Electric Information Services (GEIS), RAMIS, NOMAD, Mathematica, Tymshare, On-Line Business Systems, Interactive Data Corporation, Ross Systems
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection