Installation management: the next ten years

  • Authors:
  • Ronald M. Rutledge

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '72 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1971

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Abstract

In this paper we will give our extrapolation of the exciting challenges facing installation managers in the coming years and how we expect to react to these challenges. We view the evolution to the present stage as having gone through three generations of installation management. The first generation was marked by the early computers with small memories and relatively crude input devices in which the operation of the computer was done mainly by the person using the computer. In this early generation the computer installation manager had the hardy pioneer spirit and knew most of his customers by first name. One of his main worries was how fast he could get the next model of the computer.