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2009 Solomon Reunion11/9/2009
Mark it on your calendar! In two weeks, we'll be celebrating what would have been the 29th anniversary of Solomon Software!
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2007 Solomon Reunion11/7/2007
On Monday, November 19, 2007, we'll be celebrating what would be the 27th anniversary of Solomon Software!
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Harpst Interview on History of Solomon - Now Online5/8/2006
In this oral history interview for the Charles Babbage Institute, co-founder Gary Harpst describes how he and two of his friends from Ohio started a company called TLB ("The Lord’s Business") to produce accounting software for one client and then produced an accounting package called Solomon for CP/M-based computers and later for IBM PCs and their MS/DOS clones.
Harpst discusses the business philosophy and ethics of their business and how the three founders maintained their relationship and developed effective joint decision processes over a period of more than 25 years. He describes the strategy for selling to and through CPAs rather than directly to end users or through retail stores.
After going through a major business drought, the company created Solomon IV and the business started to grow again. Finally, the three partners decided to sell the business to Great Plains rather than to rebuild the product for the Internet.
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Solomon Would Be 24 Years Old Today!5/12/2004
May 12, 2004 would be the 24th year anniversary of TLB Associates, Inc. (what would become Solomon Software).
Gary Harpst's last day with Marathon Oil was Friday, May 9, 1980, and his first day on the job starting TLB, Inc. was Monday, May 12, 1980.
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