Title:
Oral History of Walter Bauer (1986)

Date:
1986-03-26

Pages:
13 p.

Interviewer:
Johnson, Luanne; interviewer
Bauer, Walter; interviewee
Johnson, Luanne; editor

Abstract:
In this interview, Walter Bauer, one of the founders of Informatics, talks about the challenges faced by Informatics made as they began to market Mark IV, one of the earliest successful software products. He talks about the competitive environment for software products in the late 1960s and early 1970s including lack of customer acceptance of off-the-shelf software, the impact of IBM’s unbundling decision, and the impact of the financial community’s negative view of the software industry in the late 1960s.

Keywords:
Bauer, Walter
Informatics
IBM Unbundling
Competition from IBM
Competition from in-house development
Advanced Information Systems (AIS)
Mark III
Mark IV
Computer Usage Company
Proprietary software
Hughes, Howard
Generalized Information Retrieval and Listing System
Palevsky, Max
McGurk, Dan
ADR
Autoflow

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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