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Software History Center  -
History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.
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Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend -
Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
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Borud -
History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee.
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Cincom Timeline -
Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.
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CORBA history -
Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.
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Dan Bricklin's History Section -
By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
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DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995 -
Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.
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History of Computing: Software Index -
Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
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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.
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Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection -
History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
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Outliners & Programming -
Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.
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PostgreSQL History Document -
Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
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PowerBuilder History - http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm
Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.
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Powersoft History - http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm
Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.
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Software Memories - http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm
Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
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Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History - http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm
Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
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System R History - http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm
Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.
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Teradata History - http://www.teradata.com/t/page/42649/
Official summary company history of Teradata.
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The Hard Work of Software History - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University curator.
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The History of Software Patents - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
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The Origins of Today's OLAP Products - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP.
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The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off.
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The Technology and Business of ObjectStore - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.
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The Vintage Mac Museum - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
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Tincat Group, Inc.? MultiValue Family Tree - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.
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Usenet Software: History and Sources - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
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Visicorp 1978-84 - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF
A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp.
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