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System R History - Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995. Software History Center - History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who. The History of Software Patents - A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable. History of Computing: Software Index - Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. PostgreSQL History Document - Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems. Software Memories - Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers. Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree - Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines. Dan Bricklin's History Section - By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend - Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend. Powersoft History - Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement. Outliners & Programming - Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products. The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off. Borud - History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee. 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. PowerBuilder History - Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools. Teradata History - Official summary company history of Teradata. Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of - Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser. Lannigan.org - Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent). Enterprise Software History - Capsule histories of application software companies in sectors such as ERP, MRP, and CRM. Wiki format. Astonishments in the history of version control - Blog post with historical highlights in software version control. Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection - History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum. The Rise and Fall of CORBA - Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.
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