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The Rise and Fall of CORBA The Rise and Fall of CORBA- Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers. Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection- History of various IT companies, especially enterprise software vendors. Affiliated with the Computer History Museum. Astonishments in the history of version control Astonishments in the history of version control- Blog post with historical highlights in software version control. Enterprise Software History Enterprise Software History- Capsule histories of application software companies in sectors such as ERP, MRP, and CRM. Wiki format. Lannigan.org Lannigan.org- Site with history of several software companies (InSystems, Powersoft, Covalent). Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of Xconomy: The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of- Article about the history of Erwise, a Finnish project that anticipated the Mosaic browser. Teradata History Teradata History- Official summary company history of Teradata. PowerBuilder History PowerBuilder History- Idiosyncratic history of PowerBuilder and other client/server development tools. IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary: Birth Of An Accidental Empire 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 an… Borud Borud- History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee. The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval- Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off. Outliners & Programming Outliners & Programming- Dave Winer on the history of some early personal computer software products. Powersoft History Powersoft History- Capsule history of PowerBuilder, with a scan of a product advertisement. Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend Beer and Nappies -- A Data Mining Urban Legend- Article debunking the beer-and-diapers data mining urban legend. Dan Bricklin's History Section Dan Bricklin's History Section- By Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree Tincat Group, Inc.— MultiValue Family Tree- Family tree "poster" and timeline for multivalue (PICK and U2) database management product lines. Software Memories Software Memories- Historical articles about the enterprise software industry, its companies, and its pioneers. PostgreSQL History Document PostgreSQL History Document- Capsule history of POSTGRES-related database management systems. History of Computing: Software Index History of Computing: Software Index- Taxonomy of many kinds of software, with historical perspective. The History of Software Patents The History of Software Patents- A history of how software went from unpatentable to patentable. Software History Center Software History Center- History of the software industry and the stories of its entrepreneurs and software developers. Includes lengthy software industry who's-who. System R History System R History- Includes oral history transcripts about System R and SQL. From 1995.