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See also:
 Software History Center   Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend - Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend. Borud - History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee. Cincom Timeline - Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom. CORBA history - Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers. Dan Bricklin's History Section - By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc DataDirect History - Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer variously known as Pioneer Software, Q+E Software, and DataDirect. Distributed 'Stars' coming out - 1989 Software Magazine article giving dates for the introduction of distributed database management systems products from IBM, Ingres, Tandem, and others. Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left - Open-source content management system Drupal's roots in the 2004 Howard Dean Presidential campaign. Based on a Master's thesis. The Hard Work of Software History - Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University curator. PDF History of Computing: Software Index - Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. The History of Software Patents - A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable. IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire - Information Week article on relational DBMS history. Discusses IBM internal politics, and the cooperation between IBM and UC Berkeley researchers. Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection - History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum. Lannigan.org - Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent). The Origins of Today's OLAP Products - History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP. Outliners & Programming - Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products. PostgreSQL History Document - Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems. PowerBuilder History - Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools. Powersoft History - Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement. The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off. Software Memories - Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers. Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History - Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems System R History - Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995. The Technology and Business of ObjectStore - Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore. Teradata History - Official summary company history of Teradata. Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree - Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines. Usenet Software: History and Sources - Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture. The Vintage Mac Museum - Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software. Visicorp 1978-84 - A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp. PDF Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of - Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser.Suggested link
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