The First Business Application: A Significant Milestone in Software History.
The article focuses on the history of computer software and provides information on the first business applications software. The development of the first business applications software has been considered as one of the most significant software milestone of all time. These programs massage business...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 25 - 27 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Mar2005
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