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Catalog management systems have been around since the late 1970s, when companies poured several million dollars (when that was real money) into developing systems in-house on minicomputers (in the pre-PC era) to manage their catalog businesses. To recoup some of their investments, they licensed these systems to others (usually through a third-party software company). Eventually, the software firms took on a life of their own, and other competitors followed.