A Brief History Of Enterprise Software

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At Software Advice, we recently decided to get a little noook back at the history of software. Most of the modern business world is utterly dependent on the innovations in business software over the last 60 years. The progress that we’ve made in the last six decades has been nothing short of spectacular. Software and computers has gone from something only a very few successful companies could afford to something that the masses access on a daily basis. Our editor, Lara Zuehlke undertook the mission to tell the story of enterprise software, and technology innovation, in recent history. It’s a story that spans from the days of the mainframe to the current technologies of cloud computing and virtualization. It’s a long and complex story with many actors but it’s a history worth learning as it helps explain how we go to where we are today. Here’s a recap of our four-part series on enterprise software  more...