Hewlett Packard software workshop : session three : ISV and VAR technologies up to the mid-1980s
Representatives from software product companies that developed and sold software for Hewlett Packard computers along with ex-HP employees, historians and journalists discussed the evolution of HP as a hardware/software company in the 1970s and 1980s. They talk about co-operation/competition with HP, licensing, maintenance and other issues relating to the development and marketing of software products over the period. This session focused on the technological aspects of building systems, application enabling, and applications products using HP interfaces. The direct relations between HP and the ISVs and VARs as to functions and performance were covered as well as the economic considerations for using these HP systems products. HP’s support (or non-support) of the ISV and VAR R&D activities were debated. The session also considered how the software companies insured product quality before release and provided technical assistance to their customers.
Item Details
- Date
- 2008-06-05 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102739966
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Harper Thorpe (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
Douglas Jerger (Participant)
Michael Mahoney (Historian)
Stan Sieler (Participant)
Martin Gorfinkel (Participant)
Lee Keet (Editor)
Grace Gentry (Participant)
Glenn Bugos (Historian)
Bruce Ray (Participant)
Steve Dennis (Participant)
Douglas J. Mecham (Participant)
Richard Bergquist (Participant)
Charles H. House (Participant)
Alfredo Rego (Participant)
Martin Browne (Participant)
Steve Cooper (Participant)
Jack Damm (Participant)
Bob Green (Participant)
Mark Klein (Participant)
Sandy Kurtzig (Participant)
Phil Sakakihara (Participant)
Fred White (Participant)
Rene Woc (Participant)
Michael Adamson (Participant)
Gerard Alberts (Historian) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Extent
- 44 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X4698.2008
- Subject
- Software Development, RISC, UNIX, User Groups
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection