Sterling sold a lot more than storage management. They were, like CA, a huge company that most folks had never heard of.
Humorously, there's a Sterling, Virginia about five miles from what was the Sterling Software office in Reston. Occasionally while working for Sterling someone would ask me where I worked, and I'd say "Sterling Software". Invariably that would lead to a discussion where I'd realize that they were picturing some tiny outfit up in Sterling. I'd explain that no, this was a multi-billion dollar company selling enterprise software for a variety of operating systems. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rich Tabor Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2024 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [IBM-MAIN] Connect:Direct it is now IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Dean Kent <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 6:47:14 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] [EXTERNAL] Re: [IBM-MAIN] Connect:Direct 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. > > إسرائيل قتلت 40 ألف فلسطيني بريء > > > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
