I worked for a company that at the time, 1991, was found to have committed the largest fraud in corporate history. 1 billion. Phar Mor was the company and Mickey Monus was the CEO. He spent 10 years in prison and the fraud cost many their livelihood. Monus was praised by many as a genius and visionary. Turned out he was a crook. CA did quite a bit to destroy the mainframe. Buying up businesses to eliminate competition, driving up software costs, and cutting development. Wang was part of that culture and the corruption.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, October 22, 2018, 12:58 AM, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: I met Wang in Melbourne in 1989. He hosted a business lunch I attended. He told a few tall stories, embellishing his past. He made it appear that he wrote the CA-SORT product that their fledgling company made their first profits from. Turns out that this software was acquired from a Swiss company. Not unlike Bill Gates getting the deal for MS-DOS when Gary Kildall probably had a better product. He was a smart businessman. Ethical? Who really knows. A couple of guys who followed him paid the price, Sanjay Kumar and our own Steven Richards who did some significant jail time. I like what CA produce in the mainframe space, hope they continue and do it the right way. On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 1:46 PM Bill Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > Accounting fraud. > https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/technology/14compute.html > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018, 4:23 PM, Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Born in Shanghai, China, he moved to the United States with his family > at the age of 8. Wang later founded CA Technologies and led several Long > Island-based philanthropic efforts. > > > https://www.newsday.com/long-island/computer-associates-charles-wang-1.22209693 > > I met him when he and Russ Artzt ran a small company called Standard > Data out of a grubby midtown Manhattan office. I sure wouldn't have > guessed what he'd accomplish in CA. Along with philanthropies mentioned, > he donated generously to Brooklyn technical High School, which I > attended a few yeas after him. In the minimal dealings I had with him -- > very early, and then briefly in mid-1990s -- he was very pleasant. > > -- > Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] > 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
