| Software History Center |
| Software Industry Special Interest Group Welcome Page |
| http://www.softwarehistory.org/ |
| History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Inclu des lengthy software industry who's-who. |
| Software History Center: Preserving the History of the Software Industry |
| Software History Center, The Software History Center, software history, software entrepreneurs, soft ware pioneers, software industry |
| document, lastindexof, industry, companies, newpage, newloc, people, history, software, welcome, ind ustry, computer, layers, netscape6, special, software, interest, become, rivaling, hardware, supplie r, worked, transformed, played, communicated, technical, evolution, materials, organize, source, his torical, histories, collect, meetings, workshops, computer, museum, website, publish, articles, cond uct, information, products, generations, future, preserve, events, shaped, active, program, working |
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| The History of Software Patents |
| History of Software Patents, from Benson and Diehr to State Street and Bilski (BitLaw) |
| http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html |
| A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable. |
| This section of BitLaw provides a history of how software went from 'unpatentable' to patentable. Th is section discusses Supreme Court case law (Benson, Flook, and Diehr)
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| Usenet Software: History and Sources |
| Usenet Software: History and Sources |
| http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/ |
| Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture. |
| Usenet Software: History and Sources |
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| Computers/Software/History |
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| History of Computing: Software Index |
| History of Computing: Software Index |
| http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm |
| Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. |
| history of computing |
| computer history, history of computers, history of computing, computers, history, computing, thocp |
| software, computer, software, systems, system, computer, programs, networks, online, section, progra m, common, machine, packages, networks, support, information, history, office, operating, editor, di splay, compilers, secure, introduction, created, historic, without, single, systems, technology, deg ree, management, education, output, contains, introduction, history, database, machines, computers, schools, development, expert, general, internet, process, languages, others, require, interpreters |
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| Visicorp 1978-84 |
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| 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. |
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| Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History |
| Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History |
| http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm |
| Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems |
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| The Vintage Mac Museum |
| The Vintage Mac Museum |
| http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/ |
| Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software. |
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| PostgreSQL History Document |
| PostgreSQL History Document |
| http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php |
| Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems. |
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postgresql.org - rank der domain 9456 (3596 in US)
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| Software Memories |
| Software Memories -- History of the software industry, its companies and its personalities |
| http://www.softwarememories.com/ |
| Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers. |
| History of the software industry by Curt Monash, who's been in the middle of it since 1981 |
| enterprise software, software industry, history |
| management, software, childs, categories, database, systems, comments, because, cullinet, people, te radata, database, product, recall, development, industry, software, benchmarks, oracle, around, stor ies, whether, history, wikipedia, cullinane, article, girlfriend, memories, cooper, change, friends, ingres, original, pagetracker, really, example, marketing, related, research, algebraix, microsoft, vendors, decided, business, guests, companion, pretty, hardware, britton, specific, parents |
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| Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree |
| 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. |
| Tincat Group, Inc. MultiValue Family Tree Poster and Timeline for PICK and U2 product lines. |
| MultiValue, PICK, U2, family tree, products, timeline, poster |
| multivalue, family, example, openqm, tincat, copyright, contact, nelson, papers, contents, through, trilogy, pawing, litter, content, search, accesskey, software, urchintracker, 159868, development, c urrent, entries, development, webdev, tincat |
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| Dan Bricklin's History Section |
| History Introduction |
| http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm |
| By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc |
| No Summary |
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| System R History |
| System R |
| http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/ |
| Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995. |
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| Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection |
| Welcome to the Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection |
| http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php |
| History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Compute r History Museum. |
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| CORBA history |
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| Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers. |
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| Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend |
| 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. |
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| Powersoft History |
| Powersoft History PowerBuilder History |
| http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm |
| Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement. |
| Patrick Lannigan covers Powersoft and PowerBuilder history. Powersoft's PowerBuilder rose so quickly . But the fall was almost as fast. |
| Powersoft History, PowerBuilder History |
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| The Hard Work of Software History |
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| Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University cura tor. |
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| Outliners & Programming |
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| Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products. |
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| The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval |
| The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - UDT Occasional Paper #5 |
| 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. |
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| Borud |
| blog.borud: January 2008 |
| 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. |
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| IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire |
| IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire -- Database Applications |
| 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 cooper ation between IBM and UC Berkeley researchers. |
| At first, relational database was a highly mocked product, halting in its performance compared to th e programmed-path systems. Now it represents an .6 billion a year market. |
| IBM, DB2, Ingres, Oracle, IMS, VSAM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Relational Software, Digital Equipment, VMS, Unix, SQL, Ask computer, Computer Associates, Edgar Codd, Bob Epstein, Jerry Held, J im Gray, Michael Stonebraker, |
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| Cincom Timeline |
| Industry Firsts |
| http://cincom.com/us/eng/cincom/about-cincom/history-culture/industry-first/index.jsp |
| Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom. |
| Since its founding in 1968, Cincom may have introduced more important innovations than any other fir m in the software industry. |
| software, services, business operations, customer communications, simplify, perfect customer experie nce, innovative, technologies, solutions, enterprise, contact center, document automation, manufactu ring, product configuration, healthcare, database management, application development, flexible, mis sion-critical, rapid implementation, ease of use, ROI, low cost, low risk, high value |
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| The Origins of Today's OLAP Products |
| The BI Verdict: - Analyses |
| http://www.olapreport.com/origins.htm |
| History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards a s precursors to modern OLAP. |
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| PowerBuilder History |
| PowerBuilder History - How Did It Evolve? | PowerBuilder Journal |
| http://pbdj.sys-con.com/node/124571 |
| Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools. |
| PBDJ PowerBuilder Developer's Journal |
| SYS-CON Media, NJ, Breaking Technology News, Sybase, PowerBuilder, Java, Linux, Pocket PowerBuilder, www.SYS-CON.com |
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| Distributed 'Stars' coming out |
| Distributed 'Stars' coming out; DB2 2.2 reviving dormant DBMS segment | Software Magazine | Find Articles at BNET |
| 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. |
| Distributed 'Stars' coming out; DB2 2.2 reviving dormant DBMS segment from Software Magazi ne provided by Find Articles at BNET |
| Software Magazine, , Distributed 'Stars' coming out; DB2 2.2 reviving dormant DBMS segment |
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| Teradata History |
| Teradata History |
| http://www.teradata.com/t/history/ |
| Official summary company history of Teradata. |
| Teradata was incorporated on July 13, 1979, and started in a garage in Brentwood, Calif. The name Te radata symbolized the ability to manage terabytes (trillions of bytes) of data. The founders spent t he next year raising financing. A seed round of 0,000 closed in March 1980, which allowed design and patent work to begin in earnest. |
| Teradata history, Teradata timeline |
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| Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left |
| Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left « DigiDave |
| 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. |
| Journalism is a Process, Not a Product |
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| Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of |
| The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of: The Story of Erwise and Four Finns Who Showed the Way to the Web Browser | Xconomy |
| 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. |
| Three quiet and unknown Finnish engineers in their late thirties, Kim Nyberg, Kari Sydänmaanlakka, a nd Teemu Rantanen, have spent their working careers at the |
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| The Technology and Business of ObjectStore |
| Dan Weinreb’s blog » Blog Archive » 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 Obje ctStore. |
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| DataDirect History |
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| http://www.datadirect.com/company/history/index.ssp |
| Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer variously known as Pioneer Softw are, Q+E Software, and DataDirect. |
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| Lannigan.org |
| Insystems |
| http://www.lannigan.org/insystems.htm |
| Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent). |
| Insystems: the history of Insystems and a journey of building value through document assembly. |
| Insystems |
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