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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. |
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Cincom Timeline - http://cincom.com/us/eng/cincom/about-cincom/history-culture/industry-first/index.jsp
Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Lannigan.org - http://www.lannigan.org/insystems.htm
Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent). |
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History of Computing: Software Index - http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm
Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. |
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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. |
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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. |
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http://blog.borud.no/2008_01_01_archive.html - 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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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. |