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» Astonishments in the history of version control

Blog post with historical highlights in software version control.

http://www.flourish.org/blog/?p=397

» Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend

Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~hibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html

» Borud

History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee.

http://blog.borud.no/2008_01_01_archive.html

» CORBA history

Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.

http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=396&page=1

» Cincom Timeline

Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.

http://cincom.com/us/eng/cincom/about-cincom/history-culture/industry-first/index.jsp

» Dan Bricklin's History Section

By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc

http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm

» DataDirect History

Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer variously known as Pioneer Software, Q+E Software, and DataDirect.

http://www.datadirect.com/company/history/index.ssp

» Distributed 'Stars' coming out

1989 Software Magazine article giving dates for the introduction of distributed database management systems products from IBM, Ingres, Tandem, and others.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n5_v9/ai_7242478

» Enterprise Software History

Capsule histories of application software companies in sectors such as ERP, MRP, and CRM. Wiki format.

http://erphistory.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

» ExIngres

Website that facilitates contact with former employees of Ingres Corporation.

http://exingres.org/

» History of Computing: Software Index

Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.

http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm

» 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.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403005

» Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection

History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.

http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php

» Lannigan.org

Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent).

http://www.lannigan.org/insystems.htm

» Outliners & Programming

Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.

http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming

» PostgreSQL History Document

Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php

» PowerBuilder History

Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.

http://pbdj.sys-con.com/node/124571

» Powersoft History

Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.

http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm

» Software Memories

Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.

http://www.softwarememories.com/

» Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History

Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems

http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm

» System R History

Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.

http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/

» Teradata History

Official summary company history of Teradata.

http://www.teradata.com/t/history/

» The History of Software Patents

A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.

http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html

» The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval

Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off.

http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop5/udtop5.htm

» The Technology and Business of ObjectStore

Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.

http://danweinreb.org/blog/the-technology-and-business-of-objectstore

» The Vintage Mac Museum

Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.

http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/

» Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree

Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.

http://www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html

» Usenet Software: History and Sources

Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/

» Visicorp 1978-84

A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp. [PDF]

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/dick.rumelt/Docs/Cases/Visicorp.pdf

» Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of

Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser.

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/