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12 Listings - DR (8/10)12 Listings - DR (8/10) DataDirect History - http://www.datadirect.com/company/history/index.ssp
Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer variously known as Pioneer Software, Q+E Software, and DataDirect.
On Target - DR (8/10)On Target - DR (8/10) The History of Software Patents - http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html
A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
On Target - DR (8/10)On Target - DR (8/10) Teradata History - http://www.teradata.com/t/history/
Official summary company history of Teradata.
27 Listings - DR (7/10)27 Listings - DR (7/10) Outliners & Programming - http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming
Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.
275 Listings - DR (7/10)275 Listings - DR (7/10) Distributed 'Stars' coming out - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n5_v9/ai_7242478
1989 Software Magazine article giving dates for the introduction of distributed database management systems products from IBM, Ingres, Tandem, and others.
18 Listings - DR (6/10)18 Listings - DR (6/10) IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire - http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403005
Information Week article on relational DBMS history. Discusses IBM internal politics, and the cooperation between IBM and UC Berkeley researchers.
3,500 Listings - DR (6/10)3,500 Listings - DR (6/10) Usenet Software: History and Sources - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/
Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
713 Listings - DR (6/10)713 Listings - DR (6/10) 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.
104 Listings - DR (5/10)104 Listings - DR (5/10) 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.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Lannigan.org - http://www.lannigan.org/insystems.htm
Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent).
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Powersoft History - http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm
Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) History of Computing: Software Index - http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm
Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
25 Listings - DR (5/10)25 Listings - DR (5/10) The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop5/udtop5.htm
Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off.
18 Listings - DR (4/10)18 Listings - DR (4/10) PowerBuilder History - http://pbdj.sys-con.com/node/124571
Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.
8 Listings - DR (4/10)8 Listings - DR (4/10) 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.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) System R History - http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/
Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) 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.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) 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.
6 Listings - DR (3/10)6 Listings - DR (3/10) 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.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) The Origins of Today's OLAP Products - http://www.olapreport.com/origins.htm
History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) Dan Bricklin's History Section - http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm
By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
11 Listings - DR (3/10)11 Listings - DR (3/10) Cincom Timeline - http://cincom.com/us/eng/cincom/about-cincom/history-culture/industry-first/index.jsp
Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.
13 Listings - DR (2/10)13 Listings - DR (2/10) PostgreSQL History Document - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php
Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
On Target - DR (2/10)On Target - DR (2/10) Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History - http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm
Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
118 Listings - DR (2/10)118 Listings - DR (2/10) 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.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Software Memories - http://www.softwarememories.com/
Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) The Technology and Business of ObjectStore - http://danweinreb.org/blog/the-technology-and-business-of-objectstore
Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left - http://www.digidave.org/adventures_in_freelancing/2008/12/drupal-nation-software-to-power-the-left.html
Open-source content management system Drupal's roots in the 2004 Howard Dean Presidential campaign. Based on a Master's thesis.
1,644 Listings - DR (0/10)1,644 Listings - DR (0/10) The Vintage Mac Museum - http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/
Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Borud - http://blog.borud.no/2008_01_01_archive.html
History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of - http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/03/03/the-greatest-internet-pioneers-you-never-heard-of-the-story-of-erwise-and-four-finns-who-showed-the-way-to-the-web-browser/
Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser.

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