Software History

The Software Industry Special Interest Group has collaborated with The Annals of the History of Computing to produce several special issues devoted to software and services industry topics. The special issues produced to date are:

• The Start of the Software Products Industry
• PC Software: Word Processing for Everyone
• PC Software: Spreadsheets for Everyone
• Mainframe Software: Database Management Systems
• Relational Database Management Systems: The Formative Years
• Relational Database Management Systems: The Business Explosion