Steve, I started at Sterling Commerce a few weeks after it was spun off from Sterling Software. I was told the motivating factor was divide out the financial (Vector: xxx banking software) and commerce software (Connect:Direct, Connect:Enterprise, GENTRAN, etc) from the systems software (VM:BACKUP, DMS, etc).
Each company had its own stock and for quite a while they seemed to move in parallel. Guess Sterling Williams and the Wyly brothers thought the commerce side would move one way and the systems software another. I think this was the hierarchy - Systems Center developed and marketed NDM. Shortly thereafter they merged with VM Software and created System Center. Gary Garland Gregory, MS CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1-214-473-1863 Fax: +1-214-473-1050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <snip> System Center (or was it Systems Center) had NDM. System Center was acquired by "Sterling" and renamed Connect:Direct. Sterling Software and Sterling Commerce became two different entities (I wasn't here at the time and so don't know all the ins-outs, reasons). So certain of the products were handled by the Software side and certain by the Commerce side (or entity). Sterling Commerce is now an AT&T company. And now to my STD disclaimer -- The opinions expressed by the poster are not necessarily those of poster's employer. Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
