Historical Significance of Transaction Processing

  • UNIVAC

    Universal Automatic Computer
  • The Programming Language Cobol

    Cobol (Common Business Oriented Language)
  • IBM

    IBM released its highly successful System/360 range of computers and peripherals.
  • IBM CICS

    IBM released the first version on CICS (Customer Information Control System), which is a transaction processing monitor.
  • SQL

    SQL was first developed System R ( a product to allow users to directly interrogate databases).
  • SQL Release 2

    Comercial general-purpose relational database management systems (RDBMS) emerged.
  • SQL release 3

    SQL first became an ANSI (American National Standards Institute).
  • Microsoft and SQL

    Microsoft entered the RDMS market with its SQL server product.