Attachmate went on to become Washington's largest privately held software firm.

But in recent years, they have included software firms and the government.

Microsoft stock fell 17/16 yesterday, to 97 7/8, dragging down the price of other software firms with it.

That was how a lot of Indian software firms got their first outsourced jobs.

Another student finished school and got a job making $65,000 a year at a local software firm.

During the day, he worked at a small software firm in downtown Hannover.

By the 1980s a diverse set of software firms had developed.

Her husband is still vice president of a different software firm but is able to work part time at home.

"The small software firms really took a beating when the market got too crowded."

The deal made the merged company the fifth largest American software firm at the time.