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