Directory: Top/Computers/Software/History

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
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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
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Cincom Timeline
Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.
http://cincom.com/us/eng/cincom/about-cincom/history-culture/industry-first/index.jsp
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The Origins of Today's OLAP Products
History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP.
http://www.olapreport.com/origins.htm
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PowerBuilder History
Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.
http://pbdj.sys-con.com/node/124571
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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
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Teradata History
Official summary company history of Teradata.
http://www.teradata.com/t/history/
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Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left
Open-source content management system Drupal's roots in the 2004 Howard Dean Presidential campaign. Based on a Master's thesis.
http://www.digidave.org/adventures_in_freelancing/2008/12/drupal-nation-software-to-power-the-left.html
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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/
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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
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