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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.

» 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.

» CORBA history - Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.

» Dan Bricklin's History Section - By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc

» DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995 - Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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]

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