Applied Data Research

Applied Data Research

Applied Data Research (ADR) was a large software vendor from the 1960s until the mid 1980s, and is "often described as "the first software vendor".

ADR was originally a contract development company which built a series of products, which the became widely used: major packages included "AUTOFLOW", "ROSCOE", and "LIBRARIAN". ADR later purchased the database management system DATACOM/DB, and developed the companion product "IDEAL", a fourth generation programming language.

ADR instigated litigation against IBM with accusations that IBM was "monopolizing the software industry", leading to IBM's famous unbundling of software and services in 1969. ADR in 1970 for $2 million.

ADR was eventually sold to Ameritech, then later to Computer Associates.

References

* [http://www.softwarehistory.org/history/Goetz1.html www.softwarehistory.org] – Martin A. Goetz, "How ADR Got Into the Software Products Business and Found Itself Competing Against IBM" (1998)
* [http://www.softwarememories.com/category/companies/applied-data-research// "Software Memories"] – Some basic facts about ADR


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