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Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (History of Computing) by Jeffrey R. Yost, Aspray, William, Jr., Thomas J. Misa is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies. The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers, but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries. In this book, Jeffrey Yost shows how computer services, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, have played a crucial role in shaping information technology--in making IT work. Tracing the evolution of the computer services industry from the 1950s to the present, Yost provides case studies of important companies (including IBM, Hewlett Packard, Andersen/Accenture, EDS, Infosys, and others) and profiles of such influential leaders as John Diebold, Ross Perot, and Virginia Rometty. He offers a fundamental reinterpretation of IBM as a supplier of computer services rather than just a producer of hardware, exploring how IBM bundled services with hardware for many years before becoming service-centered in the 1990s. Yost describes the emergence of companies that offered consulting
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- Author
- Jeffrey R. Yost, Aspray, William, Jr., Thomas J. Misa
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262342193
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Management, Computer Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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