On Jun 16, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
Ed Gould wrote:
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:51 PM, FRASER, Brian wrote:
I don't think CA was the original developer.
What mainframe software did CA originally develop?
My vague recollection was the cobol optimizer capex. I could be
wrong its been ages and ages.
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IIRC, CAPEX was the company name. The first CA product I remember
was CA-Sort, around 1976.
Yes I remember casort we looked at it (along with syncsort and maybe
1 other) in that time frame. I think we selected Syncsort as (besides
IBM's sort) was the only one that supported E61. I was trying to
scrap the barnacles off my memory chips and decided I couldn't
reliably say one way or the other but for some reason CApex kept
coming to the forefront. I did not write the proposal for CAPEX so I
don't remember. I know it was proposed to stave off an upgrade to the
4341's we had. As you probably remember the company I worked for was
extremely stingy with the $$. I had to write a proposal just for TSO.
I was livid when it got bounced back to me as I used the British
spelling of a word. I had it retyped and re-proofed in 2 hours and
handed back to the VP as he was leaving for the day. He was mad at me
for having him missing his train. I personally took it over to the
CEO's office and dropped it off with his assistant. The assistant was
so surprised that it got back to him it less than a day, I think he
thought we were just going to go away. He had no idea how wrong he was.
Ed
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