Posted on March 2020 | Aziz Gilani

How the information system industry became enterprise software

How the information system industry became enterprise software was published in Tech Crunch and was written by Aziz Gilani.

LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 19: Actor Jonathan Frakes arrives for the Premiere Of CBS’s “Star Trek: Discovery” at The Cinerama Dome on September 19, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Greg Doherty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

If you were a software company employee or venture capitalist in Silicon Valley before 1993, chances are you were talking about “Information Systems Software” and not “Enterprise Software.” How and why did the industry change its name?

The obvious, but perplexing answer is simple — “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

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