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History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee.

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Software History Center - History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who.

• Lannigan.org - Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent).
• The Origins of Today's OLAP Products - History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and computers 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP.
• Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend - Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
• PowerBuilder History - Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.
• The Hard Work of Software History - Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving history software history, by a Stanford University curator.[PDF]
• Dan Bricklin's History Section - By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
• Distributed 'Stars' coming out - 1989 Software Magazine article giving dates for the computers introduction of computers distributed database management systems products from computers IBM, Ingres, Tandem, and computers others.
• PostgreSQL History Document - Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
• Visicorp 1978-84 - A business school case study detailing the history of electronic history spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp.[PDF]
• Cincom Timeline - Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.
• The Technology and Business of ObjectStore - Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of software object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.
• Outliners & Programming - Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.
• System R History - Includes oral history transcripts about System R and computers SQL. From 1995.
• CORBA history - Critical history of the CORBA standard for object computers request brokers.
• Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of - Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish computers project that anticipated the Mosaic browser.
• Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree - Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK computers and U2) history database management product lines.
• DataDirect History - Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer software variously known as Pioneer Software, Q+E Software, and software DataDirect.
• Powersoft History - Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of software a product advertisement.
• History of Computing: Software Index - Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.
• Teradata History - Official summary company history of Teradata.
• Usenet Software: History and Sources - Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
• Borud - History of search engine vendor FAST Search & computers Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by computers an early technical employee.
• Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection - History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
• Software Memories - Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its computers companies, and software its pioneers.
• IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire - Information Week article on relational DBMS history. Discusses IBM computers internal politics, and the cooperation between IBM and UC Berkeley computers researchers.
• The History of Software Patents - A history of how software went from unpatentable software to patentable.
• Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History - Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems
• DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995 - Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.
• The Vintage Mac Museum - Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.
• 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.
• The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - Essay on the history of information retrieval and history search technologies, software written before the World Wide Web history took off.

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