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 The Technology and Business of ObjectStore - http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/the-technology-and-business-of-objectstore/ Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore. |
 The History of Software Patents - http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable. |
 Outliners & Programming - http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products. |
 DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995 - http://www.dbmsmag.com/int9508.html Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft. |
 Usenet Software: History and Sources - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/ Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture. |
 Visicorp 1978-84 - http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/dick.rumelt/Docs/Cases/Visicorp.pdf A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp. |
 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. |
 Powersoft History - http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement. |
 History of Computing: Software Index - http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. |
 PowerBuilder History - http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools. |
 Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection - http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum. |
 System R History - http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/ Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995. |
 Software History Center - http://www.softwarehistory.org/ History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who. |
 Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree - http://www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines. |
 CORBA history - http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=396&page=1 Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers. |
 Dan Bricklin's History Section - http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc |
 PostgreSQL History Document - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems. |
 Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History - http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems |
 Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend - http://web.onetel.net.uk/%7Ehibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend. |
 The Vintage Mac Museum - http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/ Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software. |
 SiliconUser - http://siliconuser.com/ Articles about technology history with an Apple orientation. |
 Software Memories - http://www.softwarememories.com/ Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers. |