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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.    http://www.softwarehistory.org/

» Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend    Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.    http://web.onetel.net.uk/%7Ehibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html

» CORBA history    Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.    http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=396&page=1

» DBMS Magazne Interview - August 1995    Founder Mitchell Kertzman discusses the history of Powersoft.    http://www.dbmsmag.com/int9508.html

» Dan Bricklin's History Section    By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc    http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm

» History of Computing: Software Index    Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective.    http://www.thocp.net/software/software.htm

» Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection    History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.    http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php

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

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

» PowerBuilder History    Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.    http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_1.htm

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

» SiliconUser    Articles about technology history with an Apple orientation.    http://siliconuser.com/

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

» Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History    Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems    http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm

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

» The Hard Work of Software History    Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University curator.    http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF

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

» The Technology and Business of ObjectStore    Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.    http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/the-technology-and-business-of-objectstore/

» The Vintage Mac Museum    Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.    http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/

» Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree    Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines.    http://www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html

» Usenet Software: History and Sources    Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/

» Visicorp 1978-84    A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp.    http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/dick.rumelt/Docs/Cases/Visicorp.pdf