-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:51 PM, FRASER, Brian wrote: >>What mainframe software did CA originally develop? In a message dated 6/14/2007 10:11:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >My vague recollection was the cobol optimizer capex. I could be wrong its been ages and ages. Capex was the name of an ISV in Phoenix, I think. They had several products. My employer bought one of their products ca. 1972. I can't remember now what it did (too many ages and ages). I don't remember what happened to Capex, but they were probably borged by CA. <snip> They had the CAPEX COBOL Optimizer that was used by two different places where I did contract work in the '80s. I remember calling them about a problem and the next week being told they had been acquired by CA. That's as much as I can recall about them. I remember a bit more about the optimizer, but not much -- one thing being how well dumps were formatted when using one of their options (DTECT?). And so the one client we had was going to get rid of ABENDAID because it didn't make sense to have both products. 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
