I supported SAS way back and remember it was expensive.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, March 16, 2026, 9:17 PM, Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: Maybe this is why AXWAY is eating away at their install base. -- Regards, Steve Thompson On 3/16/2026 8:44 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: > Speaking of Cash Cows. SAS charges $1 million per year of AIX or Linux > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > No one said I could type with one thumb > >> On Mar 16, 2026, at 19:23, Dick Williams >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Connect Direct was indeed a major cash cow. Unless like US, you ran it >> unsupported for many years. It was one of my products I was main support >> for. IBM wanted 100k a year. In the grand scheme of things, we weren’t a >> huge user but it was an excellent product. >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >> >> >> On Thursday, March 12, 2026, 3:33 PM, Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I went to capgemini's web site and as best I read their careers >> area, NDM (aka) Connect:Direct, has been moved to India. So I >> would imagine that everyone I worked with is gone one way or >> another. >> >> BTW Allan - I was one of the C:D development staff and worked on >> C:D for several years when IBM acquired "us". So I was trying to >> find out how different members of the team had fared over the years. >> >>> On 3/12/2026 1:44 PM, allan winston wrote: >>> IBM seems to often offload support and/or development for products they >>> still own to other software companies. A case in point is Rocket Software >>> which seems to develop and support the Omegamon suite of programs. >>> >>> I worked at Sterling Software, split off into Sterling Commerce, from >>> 1993 to 1996, first in Q.A. and later as level 2 support for >>> Connect:Direct, >>> so have been following developments over the years. >>> >>> There was a previous discussion of Connect:Direct ownership here in July >>> 2024. Note that the IBM-MAIN LISTSERV is searchable. >>> >>> IBM offloaded support, and probably development, of Connect:Direct to >>> Aricent in 2017. At that point, the late Mike Watley and probably others >>> transferred to Aricent. Later, Altran acquired Aricent and Capemini >>> acquired Altran. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
