U2 History -- A Timeline

From IBM Database Magazine Wiki

Milestones in IBM UniVerse and UniData development.

Early Events

1965

• The Pick operating system, of which IBM UniVerse and UniData are offshoots, is implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 as helicopter-parts inventory control system for the U.S. Army.

1985

• UniVerse is created at VMARK Systems.

1988

• UniData is created by UniData Corp.

The Acquisition Years

1998

• Ardent Software was created from the merger of VMARK Systems and UniData Corp.

2000

• Informix acquires Ardent Software.

2001

• IBM acquires the database assets of Informix Software. (See the related page Informix History -- A Timeline)

Recent Developments

2007

• IBM announced a beta program for UniData 7.2.