A Unique One-Time Opportunity

by Eric O'Keefe

In 1962, EDS started with just one part-time employee - Ross Perot - and no clients. That same year, Perot's former employer - IBM - had 120,000 employees and $2 billion in revenues. By the end of the 1960's, one of these two companies pioneered the burgeoning new field of health care data processing, and it wasn't IBM. In A Unique One-Time Opportunity, more than 50 EDSers share the story of the one-of-a-kind corporate culture that enabled this tiny speck of a Texas company to tap into the explosion that occurred when business needs - Medicare and Medicaid - and technology - mainframes and programming - converged.

278 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2012