ADAPSO Reunion Transcript, May 3 & 4, 2002:
The Origins of the Multi-Billion Dollar Computer Software and Services Industry
A Software History Center Project
Luanne Johnson, Editor

The May 2002 ADAPSO Reunion was a rare gathering of nearly 100 of the people who pioneered the computer software and services industry. Together, they spent two days creating an oral history of what they had done 40 years earlier to start, build and succeed in an industry that had no precedent, no guidelines, no proven metrics.

Some were able to become millionaire leaders in this new industry. Others went bankrupt trying and then, invariably, tried again.

ADAPSO was the industry trade association whose meetings were a focal point for those nascent software and services businesses, a place to meet, share best practices information, and set industry standards. Most participants were more entrepreneurial technician than business executive, more risk taker than administrator, all to the decided benefit of the companies who ultimately bought the software products and services.

The ADAPSO Reunion Transcript is, arguably, the most accurate record of how the software industry developed, told by the people who were there making it happen. It is a must read for anyone interested in the business of information  technology because the business practices of today are all based on what these people did then, in the late 1960s,1970s and early 1980s.

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