| PowerBuilder History Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools. - (Read more) http://pbdj.sys-con.com/node/124571 |
| Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser. - (Read more) 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/ |
| Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines. - (Read more) http://www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.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. - (Read more) http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop5/udtop5.htm |
| The Rise and Fall of CORBA Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers. - (Read more) http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142044 |
| The History of Software Patents A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable. - (Read more) http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html |
| Teradata History Official summary company history of Teradata. - (Read more) http://www.teradata.com/t/history/ |
| System R History Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995. - (Read more) http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/ |
| Software Memories Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers. - (Read more) http://www.softwarememories.com/ |
| Software History Center History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who. - (Read more) http://www.softwarehistory.org/ |
| Powersoft History Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement. - (Read more) http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm |
| Astonishments in the history of version control Blog post with historical highlights in software version control. - (Read more) http://www.flourish.org/blog/?p=397 |
| PostgreSQL History Document Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems. - (Read more) http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php |
| Outliners & Programming Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products. - (Read more) http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming |
| Lannigan.org Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent). - (Read more) http://www.lannigan.org/insystems.htm |
| Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum. - (Read more) http://corphist.computerhistory.org/corphist/ |
| 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. - (Read more) http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403005 |
| History of Computing: Software Index Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. - (Read more) http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm |
| Enterprise Software History Capsule histories of application software companies in sectors such as ERP, MRP, and CRM. Wiki format. - (Read more) http://erphistory.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page |
| Dan Bricklin's History Section By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc - (Read more) http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm |