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Product Managing DB2's Early Development
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 35, Number 2, April–June 2013
- pp. 67-68
- Article
- Additional Information
In late 1979, IBM senior management charged its Santa Teresa Lab with the task of building a new relational database management system for its principal operating system, MVS. Marilyn Bohl, DB2's version 1 product manager, describes DB2's early development organization and product review as well as how it fit in IBM's other divisions and product releases.