IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 24 Number 1, January-March, 2002
This special issue of The Annals was produced by The Software History Center (the predecessor to the Software Industry Special Interest Group). It focused on the software industry in the 1960s, the people who founded the earliest software products companies, and the impact of IBM unbundling on the emerging software products industry. The guest editors were Burton Grad and Luanne Johnson.
The articles and the authors of each are listed below. Click on the name of the author(s) to see an abstract of the article on the IEEE website.
Burton Grad and Luanne Johnson, Guest Editors Introduction: The Start of the Software Products Industry.
Luanne Johnson, Creating the Software Industry: Recollections of Software Company Founders of the 1960s.