|
The Silicon Boys : And Their Valley of Dreams
 |
Author: David A. Kaplan
List Price: $15.00
Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price
ISBN: 0688179061
Publisher: Perennial (04 April, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 89,758
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 out of 5
|
Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Good Description of Silicon Valley
"The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams" is a well written description of Silicon Valley at it's peak. It describes the culture of the valley during the nineties. It is an interesting peek into the a world of driven software developers and venture capitalists and everyone else in their galaxies. It focuses on companies and names we've all heard of: Apple, Oracle, Netscape, Microsoft, Intel, and many more. For anyone in the technology industry, this book is a good window onto the 90s - pre dotcom mania.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Solid Silicon Story
This was one of the best Silly Valley stories I've read yet. Kaplan does a very good job offering a historical and chronological storyline that educates the reader while holding interest. Hence an educational book that also happens to be very unique and authentic.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Silicon Boys Book Review
The non-fiction book The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams is written by David A. Kaplan. It is about how Silicon Valley started and why it is important to be near all the silicon in California. Also it explains who invented and invents the processors and software. It talks about Intel, then Apple and Microsoft, after that Oracle, then Kleiner Perkins, Mozilla, Microsoft, and finally Yahoo.David A. Kaplan used many correct facts and you can see who his sources are in the back of the book. It is organized chronologically starting at the early '70s when "The Traitorous Eight" first started developing processors. It concludes in 1999 when Microsoft was developing Internet Explorer and Yahoo was popular. Each chapter talks about a company or person or both. I think it was a very good book. It told me a lot about the computer industry and the people behind it. If you don't care much about computers you shouldn't read this book but if you even have a slight interest, you'd like this book. The author did a very good job explaning the aspects of the computer industry, so even if you don't know much about computers you can understand this book.
Similar Products
· Accidental Empires
· Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
· The Nudist on the Late Shift : And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley
· The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
|
