My recollection:
NDM was owned by Sterling Commerce, which sold network products, while
Sterling Software sold storage management solutions. In 1993 Sterling
'bought' (actually merged with) Systems Center and renamed the product
Direct:Connect. In 2000, CA aquired Sterling Software while Sterling
Commerce was bought by SBC Communications. Where it went after that, I
didn't track (I was in the storage management group of CA until 2010).
On 7/18/2024 11:00 AM, Dave Beagle wrote:
Sterling owned NDM. (Network Data Mover) It was one of the 15 or so products I was
responsible for from 2003-2017, it became Connect Direct in 93 & IBM acquired
it in 2010. I talked with a number of Sterling people over those years. AFAIK, IBM
still owns it but it might be supported by a third party. When IBM bought it, our
cost skyrocketed to 100k/year from 20k a year and we decided to drop support and
ran it unsupported for years. I wasn’t happy but management always was cost driven.
Dave B.
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On Thursday, July 18, 2024, 12:30 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka
<[email protected]> wrote:
To clarify: Nobody said it is no longer IBM-branded product.
SDSF is part of z/OS, but it is developed by Rocket Software.
Many other products are also "off-shored" out of IBM to HCL, 21CS,
Rocket and maybe other companies. (*)
Regarding Connect:Direct - I don't know it's status.
IMHO it is somehow internal competitor to MQ MFT, so I don't know
whether IBM is willing to enhance it or rather keep it moribound.
(*) Side note: JES3 and z/VSE are notable exceptions - those product
were somehow "sold" to the companies (Phoenix and 21CS) and now both are
marketed and supported be those companies.
However TWS, SDSF, PCOMM, Fault Analyzer, Omegamon - all of them are
marketed and supported by IBM. Including APARs, PTFs, etc.
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