On 02/07/2013 08:27 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
Date: 02/06/2013 06:56 PM
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:40:20 -0600, Ed Gould wrote:
Chistopher:
I would hate to see a quality product like SYNCSORT be muddied by EMC.
SYNCSORT for the last 30+ years has been a flagship and a sterling
product .
Yes, but hasn't Sterling been muddied by CA?
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Well, actually, Sterling, as an entity, was broken into two parts some
years ago.
Sterling Commerce (The MFT (Managed File Transfer), and fullfillment
suite(s), etc.,) was acquired by IBM a bit over two years ago. I can't
remember what the other Sterling company was called or its product line.
The MFT products were, off the top of my head, Connect:Direct,
Connect::Enterprise, Connect::Express, Sterling Secure Proxy, Sterling
External Authentication, File Agent, and Sterling Control Center.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
...
Well, actually the reference was clearly to Sterling Software, the
originator of SAMS Vtape circa 1998 (now CA-VTape), not to Sterling
Commerce. They no doubt had other products, but that was the only one I
dealt with.
Brief excerpt from Wikipedia about Sterling Software:
"Not to be confused with Sterling Commerce."
"Sterling Software as an American software company founded in Dallas,
Texas in 1981 by Sterling Williams and brothers Sam and Charles Wyly.
The company was acquired by Computer Associates International in 2000
... Computer Associtates sold Sterling Software's Federal Systems Group
to Northrop Grumman in 2000."
We facetiously, but as it turned out with great prescience, warned
Sterling Software salemen when we licensed SAMS Vtape around 1999 that
every non-CA vendor we dealt with seemed to end up being swallowed by
CA. Fortunately CA seemed to retain enough of the Sterling support
people that Vtape wasn't hurt by the transition.
--
Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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