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Minicomputer Software Workshop : session 2 - DEC-DG Business Growth

This workshop explored various ways in which small software and services companies who served the minicomputer market started their businesses. There were a variety of business models ranging from being focused on a particular application or utilities areas, to a specific vertical market, or to timesharing on one platform. In most cases the companies morphed into different areas by covering more platforms, adding software products, or becoming a VAR by selling hardware along with their applications. Later, there were various kinds of joint business ventures and then mergers and acquisitions.

Item Details

Date
2008-03-03 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102738008
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Kenneth Ross (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Thomas Haigh (Historian)
Karol Hines (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Participant)
Michael Mahoney (Historian)
Oscar H. Schachter (Participant)
Jan Phillips (Participant)
Bruce Ray (Participant)
Ian Walsh (Historian)
John Phillips (Participant)
Edward LaHay (Participant)
Michael Marcus (Editor)
Doug Jerger (Participant)
Paul Gustafson (Participant)
Joe Hensley (Participant)
Gerard Albert (Historian)
Category
Transcript
Format
PDF
Credit line
Software Industry Special Interest Group
Extent
44 p.
Place of publication
USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X4697.2008
Subject
Data General Corporation (DG), DEC, Ross Systems, VAX
Archive collection
CHM Oral History collection
Archive hierarchy
Oral History collection