At a former site, we had a CA product called RAPS (which apparently doesn't exist anymore for z/OS) for report distribution. When I opened the package to install it, I was confronted with a letter that started with "Thank you for being an alpha test site for our product". We decided to install it anyway and went through the pain of debugging their code multiple times. After fighting it for 2-3 years (it kind of worked...) we threw it out and went with a competitor. Knowing CA's penchant for buying up the competition we had the follow-on vendor give us a signed agreement that if they were ever acquired by CA they would supply us the source code for their entire product and allow us to take over maintenance and keep away from CA. Fortunately we never had to use that clause in the contract.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Kreiter Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 7:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [External] Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies . The Register And Cybermation. Company I worked for was getting rid of CA products and CA-11 and Jobtrac were up. Migrated to Cybermation's ESP and Encore only to have CA buy them about 6 months after the conversion completed. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 8:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies . The Register Wayne Bickerdike wrote, in part, re CA: >Over the years they also swallowed Pansophic, Platinum, the IDMS guys >(Cullinane/Cullinet?) and lots of others. Not sure what happened to >Goal >Systems, they had some good stuff too. Goal was acquired by Legent, which itself was formed when Morino Associates and Duquesne Systems merged. They didn't use my suggested name for that merger: Dorito. Then CA bought Legent a few years later. And don't forget Sterling Software-at the time, the largest software deal ever. All gone, all dust. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
