The company will become part of IBM's Rational software group.

Even smaller software groups are more inclined to approach concurrent modification in their revision control systems.

"The most important thing is how we communicate from headquarters to the software group," he said.

He led the software group initially but rose quickly through the ranks, becoming president and, finally, in 1998, chief operating officer.

Many egregious examples of this behavior have been displayed by movie, music, and software groups when trying to put a price tag on piracy losses.

In addition, the association recognizes in-house software groups, academic computer science centers and freelance programmers.

John A. Rohr's software group did not begin work until 1967.

Headland is buying Multisoft, a software group which makes business accounting systems designed for the personal computer market.

There are five components within the software group:

The system's software groups passengers by destination and most often provides nonstop trips.