History of The CA IDMS Database Management System
Judith M. Kruntorad · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2009
The origins of IDMS can be traced from Charles Bachman's work on IDS at GE in the 1960s, through its formative years at B.F. Goodrich in the 1970s and its introduction into the commercial market by Cullinane/Cullinet Software into the 1980s. The modern CA IDMS evolved from a network model DBMS to one that supports multiple data models and an entire line of database administration and application development products.