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<p>IBM refused to implement the relational model to preserve revenue from <a href="page.php?w=IMS%2FDB">IMS/DB</a>, a <a href="page.php?w=Hierarchical_database_model">hierarchical database</a> the company promoted in the 1970s.  Codd then showed IBM customers the potential of the implementation of its model, and they, in turn, pressured IBM. Then IBM included in its <a href="page.php?w=IBM_Future_Systems_project">Future Systems</a> project a <a href="page.php?w=IBM_System_R">System R</a> subproject - but put in charge of it developers who were not</p><p>
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