History

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

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

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

The Origins of Today's OLAP Products - History of analytic software products, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which the author regards as precursors to modern OLAP.
http://www.olapreport.com/origins.htm

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

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

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

Borud - History of search engine vendor FAST Search & Transfer, and of a predecessor company founded by an early technical employee.
http://blog.borud.no/2008_01_01_archive.html

Teradata History - Official summary company history of Teradata.
http://www.teradata.com/t/page/42649/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cincom Timeline - Official timeline-history of database pioneer Cincom.
http://cincom.com/us/eng/cincom/about-cincom/history-culture/industry-first/index.jsp

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

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

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

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

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 and UC Berkeley researchers.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403005

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

The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - Essay on the history of information retrieval and search technologies, written before the World Wide Web took off.
http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop5/udtop5.htm