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dimecres, 28. de novembre 2007
bubble to the n motzes, 28.11.2007 22:00h
remember 1999/2000? the burst of the bubble? it was not the first one that hit computer industry. there was a time when software development hang on the umbilical cord of ibm, who prefered to change their spec on the fly, destroying software dreams, but there was also a software stock desaster dating back to 1969/70. a major factor in the software stock debacle was the overvalued balance sheets then common in the industry - where all software development investment was classed as an asset under software inventory | datamation 1977 one company that survived and existed since 1964, was ard, applied data research, inc. holding the ¿first?/a patent on commercial software. licence price back then: $4.800 and 6.000$ for a performance measurement system called "look". "librarian", "king of the line", was a sort of program management system priced between $4.900 and $10.000 in 1977. a "king" back then had 3.500 installations. while others talked about 250 .. ... Comment
StefanL, 29/11/07 23:03
The times they wer a changing and so they do still. ... Link ... Comment |
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