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Software Industry Research Paper

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CHAPTER1
Introduction
1. Software Industry
The software industry includes businesses for development, maintenance and publication of software that are using different business models, mainly either "license/maintenance based" (on-premises) or "Cloud based" (such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, MaaS, AaaS, etc.). The industry also includes software services, such as training, documentation, and consulting. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_industry)

1.1 History of Software Industry (Overview)
The word "software" came in to existence in 1960s. UNIVAC and IBM were few commercial computer vendors of the time who programmed computers. In 1955, Computer Usage Company was the first company to provide software products …show more content…

History & Development of Software Industries:

Software industry came in to existence in the mid-1950s, but the size of the industry was too small in comparison to merit detail analysis, so it not comes in to notice and very little attention was paid to it. In 1970s, all U.S software firm contribution of the total computer business was less than $. 5 billion about 3.7 percent. [Phister, 1979, p. 245]
(Phister, Montgomery, Jr., data Processing: Technology and economics (Santa Monica, Calif., 1979)

The actual growth of the software industries seems in the 1970’s first following IBM’s 1969 unbundling decision and toward the end of the decade from the rise of the personal computer. After two months of the Garmisch conference in December 1968, IBM made the decision to “unbundle” its software. Both events are not connected with each other, but collectively they constituted a revolution in software and software …show more content…

Peter. C. Grindley of the London Business School [1988] conduct enquiry in UK software industry and conclude that technology were not problem of the industry but there is need of establishment independent software industries in U.K and support for software engineering.
[Grindley, Peter C., The UK Software Industry: A Survey of the Industry and Evaluation of Policy (London, 1988]

Software Industries was divided into two sectors under the OECD report: “the hardware manufacturers” and “the computer services industry”. Under the US report, the firms categorized in to three form “professional services”, “software products,” and “integrated systems.” The ACARD report did not give much emphasis on industry structure, but this report simply called them suppliers, appliers and users. The report presented by the Peter. C. Grindley, it make it clear the concept of the industry, firstly define the concept of tradable and non-tradable software and then categorized them into three major producers of software: “hardware manufacturers,” “independent software producers”, and “value added

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