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Guide to the Gary Morgenthaler collection
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Relational Technology, Inc. records, Series 1, Bulk, 1980-1990 1980-1996

Series Scope and Content

This series contains material that documents Relational Technology, Inc., from its founding in 1980, to its 1989 name change to Ingres Corporation, through 1996. It is primarily comprised of administrative and financial records, such as business plans and overviews, stock and investment records, board meeting minutes and reports, promotional material, and human resources records containing personnel documents and company policies and procedures. Of particular interest are reports that analyze Relational Technology's competition, particularly Oracle and Sybase. This series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
 

102686015 Administrative and personnel records 1983-1990; 1996

 

102686008 Annual and quarterly reports 1987-1989

 

102686018 Articles and clippings 1980-1991

 

102686012 Board minutes and reports 1986-1988

 

102655282 Business plans and overviews 1982-1989

 

102734122 Chairman's report to the Relational Technology, Inc. board of directors 1988

 

102734094 Competitive analysis reports 1985-1988

 

102655283 Financial records 1983-1989

 

102686005 Ingres Corp. press 1990

 

102686019 Ingres Corp. stock records 1989-1990

 

102686004 Market research undated

 

102655322 Presentations 1981-1988

 

102655276 Product development, specifications, reports 1981-1988

 

102686003 Promotional materials 1983-1990

 

102734123 Stock and investments records 1989-1990

 

102686006 Sybase litigation 1986

 

102685999 User surveys 1980-1986

 

Tymshare and Informix records, Series 2, 1970-1977, 1997-2000

Series Scope and Content

This series contains records related to Tymshare, a company at which Morgenthaler worked in the 1970s, and Informix, a company that acquired Morgenthaler's Illustra Information Technologies in 1996. The Tymshare folder contains stock and retirement plan documents, an organizational chart, and a five-year plan summary. The Informix folder contains a 1997 letter written by Morgenthaler to the Informix board of directors expressing his concerns as a shareholder over the company's poor performance. It also includes a 2000 SEC settlement with Informix over accounting fraud. This series is arranged chronologically.
 

102655320 Tymshare records 1970-1977

 

102655323 Informix records 1997-2000

 

Books and manuals, Series 3, Bulk, 1981-1988 1981-2000

Series Scope and Content

This series contains instructive books and manuals about relational database management systems. Three of the works are guides to INGRES — all from the late 1980s when it was a product owned by Relational Technology, Inc. Most of the other material covers other database management systems and standard relational languages, including SQL. Two exceptions that are not exclusively about databases include a book of technology-related cartoons from The New Yorker and a business work titled What Not How: The Business Rules Approach to Application Development. Four of the books are authored by C.J. Date, a specialist in relational database systems who, after leaving his job at IBM in 1983, became a consultant for Relational Technology, Inc. This series is arranged chronologically.
 

102734113 Evaluating data base management systems 1981

 

102734117 A guide to DB2 1984

 

102734118 A guide to INGRES 1987

 

102734114 A guide to the SQL standard : a user's guide to the standard relational language SQL 1987

 

102734121 Getting started in INGRES 1987

 

102734120 INGRES training 1988

 

102734119 Object-relational DBMSs : the next great wave 1996

 

102734115 The New Yorker book of technology cartoons 2000

 

102734116 What not how : the business rules approach to application development 2000

 

102727387 The real story of Informix Software and Phil White: lessons in business and leadership for the executive team 2005

Collection Contents
Relational Technology, Inc. records,
Tymshare and Informix records,
Books and manuals,
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