Rules For Success? – Artemis
Artemis was and still is a project management system, that used PERT and critical path methods, coupled with advanced computation and graphics to solve the problems of managing, budgeting and controlling costs in projects.
I programmed the original mini-computer based system in the mid-1970s, building on earlier PERT and other programs I’d written for a company called Time Sharing, which allowed people to dial-up a large mainframe computer.
By the 1980s, over half of all the world’s major projects were managed by Artemis.
The software ranged in size from the PC through our own hardware to large mainframes.
In 1984, we sold the company to Lockheed for $128,000,000.
Since then, the company has suffered many changes of ownership and is just a shadow of what it could have been.
As an example, our database system was fully relational and pre-dated Oracle by a few years. But we didn’t realise totally what we had.
So always make sure that what you develop, doesn’t have more important applications in areas that weren’t in your original thoughts!
The Anonymous Widower 
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The Artemis family was the best fun company I ever worked for and even now 25 years on we still all keep in touch. Modern companies need to have this family concept to keep a happy enviroment where people work all hours for the family not the money.
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