The Shadowland/Lightroom Development Story
www.photoshopnews.com/2006/01/09/the-shadowlandlightroom-development-story
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
The development of Adobe Lightroom, code named Shadowland, was not something Adobe started after Apple announced Aperture. The Shadowland project has been going on for years.