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Sites about the history of software and/or of the software industry.

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• Astonishments in the history of version control

  http://www.flourish.org/blog/?p=397
  Blog post with historical highlights in software version control.

• Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend

  http://web.onetel.net.uk/~hibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html
  Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.

• Borud

  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.

• Dan Bricklin's History Section

  http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm
  By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc

• Enterprise Software History

  http://erphistory.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
  Capsule histories of application software companies in sectors such as ERP, MRP, and CRM. Wiki format.

• History of Computing: Software Index

  http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm
  Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.

• 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.

• Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection

  http://corphist.computerhistory.org/corphist/
  History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.

• Lannigan.org

  http://www.lannigan.org/insystems.htm
  Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent).

• Outliners & Programming

  http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming
  Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.

• PostgreSQL History Document

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php
  Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.

• PowerBuilder History

  http://pbdj.sys-con.com/node/124571
  Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.

• Powersoft History

  http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm
  Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.

• Software History Center

  http://www.softwarehistory.org/
  History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.

• Software Memories

  http://www.softwarememories.com/
  Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.

• System R History

  http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/
  Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.

• Teradata History

  http://www.teradata.com/t/history/
  Official summary company history of Teradata.

• The History of Software Patents

  http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html
  A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.

• The Rise and Fall of CORBA

  http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142044
  Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.

• The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval

  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.

• 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.

• Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of

  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.

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