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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Vertical Software Industries

Pasi Tyrväinen

subject

EngineeringSoftwareCore businessInformation and Communications Technologybusiness.industrySoftware developmentSoftware businessIBMTelecommunicationsbusinessEnterprise resource planningGeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUSFinancial services

description

The software industry (SWI) was born only a few decades ago, and is still relatively young compared to other industries. Its origins can be traced down to the decisions to unbundle some secondary parts of IBM computer development to independent software companies (Campbell-Kelly 2004). The software development was then considered a secondary activity serving the core business, which was at that time computer hardware manufacturing. This focus on hardware is still visible in the brand names of both the global information and communication technology (ICT) giants, such as IBM, and the major professional and scientific establishments of the field, such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2009-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2352-3_2