Computer History Museum

Cunningham, Peter oral history

Peter Cunningham who was the founder and chief executive of INPUT, a leading market research firm for software and services, describes his education in the UK and his initial positions in the UK and in the US before starting INPUT. He then covers how the firm operated over many years including detailed descriptions of the role that he played as an interpreter of the industry statistics which INPUT collected. Although successful from an industry leadership standpoint INPUT didn’t grow much beyond a certain level and because of financial pressures, Cunningham had to completely restructure and refocus the company in the late 1990s. The new focus on gathering and disseminating information on the US federal government purchases of technology was extremely profitable and Cunningham was able to sell the company at a very favorable price before 2010.

Item Details

Date
2014-02-07 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102746893
Organization
Computer History Museum (Publisher)
People
Peter Cunningham (Interviewee)
Grad, Burton (Interviewer)
Eric Dennis (Videographer)
Category
Transcript
Credit line
Software Industry Special Interest Group
Extent
81 p.
Place of publication
USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X7088.2014
Subject
Control Data Corporation (CDC), Accenture, Andersen Consulting, Association of Data Processing Service Organizations (ADAPSO), Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Input, General Motors, CEIR, ADP, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection