Open Directory - Computers: Software: History
See also: - History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who. - Blog post with historical highlights in software version control. - Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend. - History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee. - Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers. - Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom. - By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc - Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer variously known as Pioneer Software, Q+E Software, and DataDirect. - 1989 Software Magazine article giving dates for the introduction of distributed database management systems products from IBM, Ingres, Tandem, and others. - Capsule histories of application software companies in sectors such as ERP, MRP, and CRM. Wiki format. - Website that facilitates contact with former employees of Ingres Corporation. - Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. - Information Week article on relational DBMS history. Discusses IBM internal politics, and the cooperation between IBM and UC Berkeley researchers. - History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum. - Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent). - Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products. - Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems. - Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools. - Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement. - Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers. - Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems - Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995. - Official summary company history of Teradata. - A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable. - Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off. - Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore. - Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software. - Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines. - Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture. - A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp. [PDF] - Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser.
