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History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who. www.softwarehistory.org/ The History of Software Patents A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable. www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html Usenet Software: History and Sources Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture. www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/ History of Computing: Software Index Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. www.thocp.net/software/software.htm Visicorp 1978-84 A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp. www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/dick.rumelt/Docs/Cases/Visicorp.pdf Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm The Vintage Mac Museum Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software. www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/ PostgreSQL History Document Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems. archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php Software Memories Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers. www.softwarememories.com/ Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines. www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html Dan Bricklin's History Section By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm System R History Extensive oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995. www.mcjones.org/System_R/ Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum. www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php CORBA history Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers. acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=396&page=1 Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend. web.onetel.net.uk/%7Ehibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html Outliners & Programming Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products. davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming PowerBuilder History Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools. pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm Powersoft History Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement. www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995 Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft. www.dbmsmag.com/int9508.html SiliconUser Articles about technology history with an Apple orientation. siliconuser.com/ Other Search by History
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