DocumentCode
1256953
Title
A personal recollection: IBM´s unbundling of software and services
Author
Grad, Burton
Volume
24
Issue
1
fYear
2002
Firstpage
64
Lastpage
71
Abstract
Many people believe that one pivotal event in the growth of the business software products market was IBM´s decision, in 1969, to price its software and services separately from its hardware. The author´s recollections shed light on the internal process and surrounding business climate that led to IBM´s decision
Keywords
DP industry; IBM computers; business data processing; costing; IBM; business software products market; computer industry; software industry; software pricing; software unbundling; Application software; Computer aided manufacturing; Costs; Hardware; History; Marketing and sales; Monopoly; Packaging; Software maintenance; Systems engineering and theory;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/85.988583
Filename
988583
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