Yourdon was a pioneer of the software engineering methodology and a proponent of structured analysis. He is also known as a co-developer of object-oriented analysis/design.
Kildall is known as the creator of the CP/M operating system. IBM made an unsuccessful attempt at licensing CP/M for the IBM PC.
VisiCalc is often regarded as the first spreadsheet program, originally released for the Apple II. VisiCalc was a big part of the personal computer becoming a business tool.
Ellison, Miner, and Oates founded Software Development Laboratories in 1977, which later became Oracle. Today, the company is known as a leader in ERP and CRM software.
SAP was founded as a private partnership in June of 1972. The company began by creating enterprise software for payroll and accounting.
Barr founded the Statistical Analysis System in the late 1960s. The SAS Institute was incorporated by Barr and Jim Goodnight in the 1970S.
In 1978, Laughton was working for Shepardson Microsystems and was contracted to build Apple’s first DOS for the Apple II.
Richard Lawson founded Lawson Software in 1975 with his brother Bill and John Cerullo. The company began providing custom mainframe software for IBM and went public in 2001.
Bob Taylor and the PARC team are responsible for tech innovations such as graphical user interface (GUI) and Ethernet.
Conner is a former Senior Editor for TechRepublic. He is now a Senior Research Analyst at 451 Research.
