> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:04:28 -0400 Mark Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > :>Bruce Black wrote: > :>>> Vary true ... There used to be a product (it may still exist for all > :>>> I know) that was a competitor to IBM's DFHSM > :>> ASM2 was eventually acquired by CA and become CA-DISK, then > :>> Brightstore CA-DISK, and now CA Disk Backup and Restore. I think > :>> there was an intermediate acquisition that I have forgotten about. > > :>ASM2 was owned by SKK (The authors of ACF2) and became CA property when > :>CA bought SKK. > > Not that I know of (and I worked for SKK at the time). > > Cambridge marketed both products. > > -- > Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I was employed by Cambridge Systems Group at the time of the takeover by UCCEL. As it was explained to me by folks there who seemed to know what was happening, UCCEL wanted to buy only ACF2, but CSG had (semi-)exclusive marketing rights to ACF2, ASM2, and ADC2. Due to contractual obligations, if SKK wanted to sell ACF2, then the buyer also had to buy-out the CSG products (ASM2 and ADC2). IIRC, some suits showed up on Monday and huddled in a very small room for most of the week. On Friday, they came out and fired most of the CSG personnel. The dismissed personnel had to leave immediately; they could return for their personal items after they attended a meeting at a local hotel (I think it was called an "out-placement" meeting). A local company was hired to handle the dispatching of the fired personnel. What goes around, comes around. Just about 3 months later CA bought-out UCCEL, and many UCCEL folks received their pink slips. It seems that CA was already in private talks with UCCEL for a takeover, but CA had to wait until the CSG/SKK takeover was complete before CA could proceed with taking over UCCEL. I survived the UCCEL takeover, but I quickly went across the street to Boole & Babbage and got a job there. (Those were the days when MVS product development jobs were plentiful....sigh...) Jeffrey D. Smith Principal Product Architect Farsight Systems Corporation 700 KEN PRATT BLVD. #204-159 LONGMONT, CO 80501-6452 303-774-9381 direct 303-484-6170 FAX http://www.farsight-systems.com/ see my résumé at my website (yes, I am looking for employment) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
