Government Professional Services (GPS) workshop : session #1 : early history -- organizing the companies
<p>Pioneers from eight Government Professional Services firms which were formed at the start of the industry discuss the formation and early years of the companies. The topics covered are who the founders were, their original impetus for starting the company, the source of initial and follow-on financing, and initial markets and technical objectives. The discussion covers the initial market positions that the companies were aiming for and how this was influenced by the presence of the other companies. This session covered five of the eight companies with the remainder covered in Session #2.</p>
Item Details
- Date
- 2009-03-31 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102742920
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Ed Bersoff (Participant)
Paul E. Ceruzzi (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
David Grier (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Editor)
Jeffrey Yost (Participant)
John Toups (Participant)
Thomas (Tim) Bergin (Participant)
Dan Bannister (Participant)
J.P. (Jack) London (Participant)
Walt Culver (Participant)
Stan Gutkowski (Participant)
Judy Huntzinger (Participant)
Wayne Shelton (Participant)
Dan Young (Participant)
Doug Jerger (Participant)
Bob Plouffe (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Participant) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Extent
- 28 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/VA/Falls Church
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X5323.2009
- Subject
- BDM International, PRC, Federal Data Corporation, BTG, Inc., Andersen Consulting, SIMSCRIPT, CACI, Rand Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection