Title:
Oral History of Gerald Cohen

Date:
1986-05-14

Pages:
24 p.

Interviewer:
Johnson, Luanne; interviewer
Cohen, Gerald; interviewee
Johnson, Luanne; editor

Abstract:
In this interview, Gerry Cohen, the founder of Information Builders, talks about his early career when he was responsible for developing RAMIS at Mathematica and how the growth of a software product business within that consulting firm led to his decision to leave Mathematica and form Information Builders to develop a competing product, FOCUS. He describes the importance of offering both of these products through time-sharing services such as NCSS and Tymshare and the significance of time-sharing services in creating the software products industry. He covers the impact of IBM competition on early software products industry and the extensive user group infrastructure which developed at Information Builders.

Keywords:
Cohen, Gerald
Information Builders, Inc.
Mathematica
RAMIS
FOCUS
National CSS
Tymshare
Time-sharing
Braniff, Ron
User groups
Applied Logic

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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