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Software Debate: Sifting the Marketplace
Posted Under: Management Information Systems
Source: Information Week Date: March 1988
In 1988, InformationWeek magazine assembled a group of software gearheads to discuss the pressing issues of that time. I was invited to be one of group and accepted. The conversation was focused on discussing what a CIO (chief information officer) needed in order to do a superior job. Among the topics of discussion were: purchasing software packages vs. custom development, how to find the right software vendor, the emergence of standard DBMS software packages and advanced development languages for those environments, IBM’s influence on emerging standards, and the rationale for outsourcing a company’s IT department.
