You wrote that John Cullinane and his company, Cullinet Software Inc., was the creator of the packaged software market. Not even close to the truth, as John Cullinane will surely confirm. Applied Data ...

Mitchell D. Kapor, the freewheeling chairman of the Lotus Development Corp., found it disconcerting recently when competitors started referring to Lotus as “the IBM of software.” “I guess it was ...

Abstract: The origins of IDMS can be traced from Charles Bachman's work on IDS at GE in the 1960s, through its formative years at B.F. Goodrich in the 1970s and its introduction into the commercial ...

Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the original spreadsheet program, VisiCalc, has joined Alpha Software Corp. of Burlington as chief technology officer. Another software industry pioneer, Cullinet Software ...