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	The History of Software Patents - http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable.
	Dan Bricklin's History Section - http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc
	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.
	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.
	System R History - http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/ Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.

	Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend - http://web.onetel.net.uk/%7Ehibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend.
	Usenet Software: History and Sources - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/ Short essay on the development of Usenet architecture.
	Software Memories - http://www.softwarememories.com Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers.
	Teradata History - http://www.teradata.com/t/history/ Official summary company history of Teradata.
	Stottler Henke - Artificial Intelligence History - http://www.stottlerhenke.com/ai_general/history.htm Brief history of artificial intelligence, especially expert systems

	PowerBuilder History - http://pbdj.sys-con.com/node/124571 Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools.
	PostgreSQL History Document - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems.
	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.
	Outliners & Programming - http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products.
	The Vintage Mac Museum - http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/ Screenshots of vintage Macintosh software.

	Visicorp 1978-84 - http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/dick.rumelt/Docs/Cases/Visicorp.pdf A business school case study detailing the history of electronic spreadsheet pioneer Visicorp.
	Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left - http://www.digidave.org/adventures_in_freelancing/2008/12/drupal-nation-software-to-power-the-left.html Open-source content management system Drupal's roots in the 2004 Howard Dean Presidential campaign. Based on a Master's thesis.
	DataDirect History - http://www.datadirect.com/company/history/index.ssp Official company history of the ODBC/JDBC/data connectivity pioneer variously known as Pioneer Software, Q+E Software, and DataDirect.
	Lannigan.org - http://www.lannigan.org/insystems.htm Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent).
	The Technology and Business of ObjectStore - http://danweinreb.org/blog/the-technology-and-business-of-objectstore Detailed two-part history of Object Design, maker of object-oriented database management system ObjectStore.

	Distributed 'Stars' coming out - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n5_v9/ai_7242478 1989 Software Magazine article giving dates for the introduction of distributed database management systems products from IBM, Ingres, Tandem, and others.
	http://blog.borud.no/2008_01_01_archive.html - 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.
	Powersoft History - http://www.lannigan.org/powersoft_powerbuilder_history.htm Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement.
	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.
	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.
	Cincom Timeline - http://cincom.com/us/eng/cincom/about-cincom/history-culture/industry-first/index.jsp Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.
	The Origins of Today's OLAP Products - http://www.olapreport.com/origins.htm History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP.
	Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection - http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/index.php History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum.
	The Hard Work of Software History - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/backissuesvol2no/lowood.PDF Paper on the challenges and techniques of preserving software history, by a Stanford University curator.

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

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