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IDMS(ID:8474/)

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Country: United States
Designed 1969

BF Goodrich porting and renaming of the GE IDS, foundation for a large family of CODASYL dbs

Cullinane then purchased rights from BFG, making it essentially a CUllinane brand (although the arrangement kept a royality flow)

Related languages

IDS	→	IDMS	Port of
IDS	→	IDMS	Renaming
IDMS	→	ADSO	Front end for
IDMS	→	DATA DISPLAY	Extension of
IDMS	→	IDMSX	Port of
IDMS	→	OLQ2	Extension of
IDMS	→	ONLINE ENGLISH	Extension of

References:

IDMS-L (1998) Hoelscher, ed Chris "IDMS History - Part II" redacted from IDMS-L postings Online copy Extract: IDMS In The Eighties Extract: Rise And Fall Of Cullinet Extract: Emergence Of New Players Extract: What Went Wrong During 1986-89? Extract: Enter Computer Associates - 1989

Karasz (1998) Karasz, Peter "The Origins of IDMS" (edited by Chris Hoelscher) Online postings Online copy Extract: Early Sixties Extract: IDMS Name Makes Its Debut Extract: Enter Cullinane Corporation
Resources

IDMS wikipedia from Wikipedia

The roots of IDMS go back to Dr. Charles Bachman's IDS (Integrated Data Store), an early database engine developed at General Electric.

In the early 1960s IDS was taken from its original form, by the Computer Group of the B.F. Goodrich Chemical Division, and re-written in a language called ISL (Intermediate System Language). ISL was designed as a portable system programming language able to produce code for a variety of target machines. Since ISL was actually written in its own language (ISL) it was able to be ported to other machine architectures with relative ease, and then to produce code that would execute on them.

The Chemical Division computer group had given some thought to selling copies of IDMS to other companies, but was told by management that they were not in the software products business. Eventually a deal was struck with John Cullinane to buy the rights and market the product.

Because Cullinane was required to remit royalties back to B.F. Goodrich, all add-on products were listed and billed as separate products - even if they were mandatory for the core IDMS product to work. This sometimes confused customers.

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