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• More technology drama in our blogs
• 22 days ago
• Software Memories has a new theme. In the immediate future, that new theme will be rolled out to most or all of our other blogs. We’re not doing this because we want to — it’s a nice theme, but we have a nicer one yet under development. Rather, this change is necessitated by an [...] ...

• At least somebody remembers his history
• 120 days ago
• I’m going through a ton of MySQL-related blog posts right now, for obvious reasons. I ran across one from last month in which MySQL’s senior execs said ridiculous things about industry history, such as Microsoft started as an OS company or Microsoft didn’t think much about its business model when it started out. [...] ...

• Software AG memories
• 159 days ago
• Software AG was the first important non-US software company,* selling the ADABAS DBMS and associated tools. These included the fourth-generation language Natural, the transaction processing monitor Complete (in those days DBMS were sold with their own associated TP monitors), and a whole lot of modules named Adathis and Adathat. (These product names [...] ...

• Disputed history of the term Business Intelligence
• 165 days ago
• According to Computerworld, Howard Dresner coined the term business intelligence in 1989 at Gartner Group. That seems odd, since a week before that story appeared Howard told me and a couple of other folks that he and his colleagues coined the term, not when he worked at Gartner, but previously when he worked [...] ...

• Setting the record straight
• 290 days ago
• Computerworld got software industry history a bit wrong by implying that John Cullinane innovated packaged software (specifically, they said “packaged application”). Here’s what really happened, as I learned soon after becoming an analyst in the early 1980s: Most early packaged software companies were hybrids, offering both packaged products and professional services (including ...