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Timesharing and Remote Processing Services Meeting Session #8: Marketing and Sales: Adapting to Changing Markets

<p>This session covers how the expansion of the use of more powerful minicomputers changed the timesharing market. Topics covered include: &bull; How the individual companies adapted to these changes &bull; Changes to marketing strategies or the target markets &bull; Changes to the selection of applications to be offered &bull; Changes to the pricing structure &bull; Changes to the sales organization &bull; Acquisitions that were made to expand the companies&rsquo; product offerings</p>

Item Details

Date
2009-06-03 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102702890
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Chris McDonald (Historian)
Frank Belvin (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Thomas Haigh (Historian)
Luanne Johnson (Editor)
Ann Hardy (Participant)
Dick Bayles (Participant)
Nicholas Rawlings (Participant)
Rick Crandall (Participant)
Mike Humphries (Participant)
Edward LaHay (Participant)
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
Format
PDF
Credit line
Software Industry Special Interest Group
Extent
20 p.
Place of publication
North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X5386.2009
Subject
Tymshare, NEC, Interactive Data Corporation, On-Line Business Systems, Quantum, CompuServe, NOMAD, General Electric Information Services (GEIS), United Data Centers, Comshare, Dun & Bradstreet
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection