Oral history interview with John Cullinane
2003-07-29
Loading...
View/Download File
Persistent link to this item
Statistics
View StatisticsJournal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Title
Oral history interview with John Cullinane
Authors
Published Date
2003-07-29
Publisher
Charles Babbage Institute
Type
Oral History
Abstract
Software products industry pioneer John Cullinane begins by discussing his education and his first jobs in computer operations and programming at Arthur D. Little, C-E-I-R, and Philip Hankins & Company. He relates how these experiences led him to form a software products firm, Cullinane Corporation, and raise venture capital. He discusses the firm's development and marketing of a number of new software products, including Culprit, Library Update System, EDP Auditor, and IDMS, and IDMSDC, and relates how the Cullinane Corporation transitioned from selling individual report generator programs to suites of data processing systems that included database software and other applications. Much of the interview focuses on the firm's evolving management strategy that led to its long-term financial success. Cullinane also discusses some problems occurred after he left the active management of the company, the sale of Cullinet (the firm's new name) to Computer Associates, and his subsequent business and philanthropic activities.
Description
Transcript, 43 pp.
Related to
Replaces
License
Collections
Series/Report Number
Funding information
Isbn identifier
Doi identifier
Previously Published Citation
John Cullinane, OH 349. Oral history interview by Jeffrey R. Yost, 29 July 2003, Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107237
Suggested citation
Cullinane, John J.. (2003). Oral history interview with John Cullinane. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107237.
Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.