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Open
- How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
The story of Compaq is well-known: Three ex-Texas Instruments managers founded Compaq with modest venture funding. Just four years later, Compaq was on the Fortune 500 list, and, two years after that, they had exceeded $1 billion in annual revenue. No company had ever achieved these milestones so rapidly.
But few know the story behind the story. In 1982, when Compaq was founded, there was no software standardization, so every brand of personal computer required its own unique application software. Just eight years later, compatibility with the open PC standard had become ubiquitous, and it has continued to be for over two decades.
This didn’t happen by accident. Cofounder and then CEO Rod Canion and his team made a series of risky and daring decisions - often facing criticism and incredulity - that allowed the open PC standard marketplace to thrive and the incredible benefits of open computing to be realized.
A never-before-published insider account of Compaq’s extraordinary strategies and decisions, Open provides valuable lessons in leadership in times of crisis, management decision-making under the pressure of extraordinary growth, and the power of a unique, pervasive culture.
Open tells the incredible story of Compaq’s meteoric rise from humble beginnings to become the PC industry leader in just over a decade. Along the way, Compaq helped change the face of computing while establishing the foundation for today’s world of tablets and smart phones.
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- Antibaddy
- 21-02-23
Made me reassess the PC revolution
Although I’d grown up through it, I was just too young in the early 80s to really care about IBM and the clones, so I’ve always taken it for granted that IBM started it and drove it forward. Reading this has given me new insight, that it was the opposite, that the cloners, and compaq in particular, that drive the industry forward with the guiding principle of backwards compatibility. I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish.
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- 26-10-18
reads like a thriller
never a dull moment I just wanted to listen to this book all the time, the story is riveting. The narrator sounds like a robot though but it's bearable.
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