I don't think they sold it to anyone, I believe it's just been rendered obsolete. A lot of people who used it were using it for mostly the automation capability part(s) so it conflicted with the "other" (much more expensive) automation product they sell.
When they first announced it, we (Syzygy Inc.) ended up getting traffic from a lot of their users because the replacement products were extremely expensive and our automation package was (and still is) less than 1/10th the price and even cheaper than Netview at less 1/5th the price they were already paying. So the sites found that our software did everything that IBM's (and CA's and BMC's) automation did at a small fraction of the price and we were so flooded by new clients that we had to temporarily stop marketing. That was over a year ago, and since then we have streamlined the licensing process and that allowed us to reduce the cost even more. Plus, volume made a big difference. You can afford to reduce prices quite a bit when you have several hundred users instead of just 150. Whereas I think most vendors just keep raising (or at least not lowering) their prices because they get greedy. Unfortunately, we found back then that it was a lot harder to support 500 more sites and we just plain were not prepared for it. :) Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
