Software in the 1960s as Concept, Service, and Product

Authors:
Thomas Haigh
Affiliations:
Charles Babbage Institute of the Univ. of Minnesota and the IEEE History Center
Venue:
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Packaged application software established a small but important corporate niche during the 1960s. The author charts the shifting meaning of the word software, situates the first software companies within the overall computer services market, and probes the attractions and limitations of the first packages from the viewpoint of their potential purchasers: managers of data processing.