Applied Data Research (ADR) was a large software vendor from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. ADR is often described as "the first independent software vendor".
Founded in 1959, ADR was originally a contract development company. ADR eventually built a series of products. ADR's widely-used major packages included: Autoflow for automatic flowcharting, ROSCOE (Remote OS Conversational Operating Environment), and Librarian for source-code management. ADR later purchased the Datacom/DB database management system from Insyte Datacom and developed the companion product, IDEAL (Interactive Development Environment for an Application’s Life), a fourth-generation programming language.
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