This 1990 article, linked from the CA Wikipedia entry, suggests CA-Sort was a CA product before Wang acquired CA. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/23/magazine/computers-selling-software-the-hard-way.html
"...upon graduating in 1967... Seven years later, Charles encountered a remarkably efficient Swiss software program, CA-SORT, that had the ability to sort data on I.B.M. mainframes. In his opinion, it worked better than I.B.M.'s own software. The Swiss supplier was Computer Associates International. Wang entered a joint venture with the company to distribute the software in the United States. Selling primarily by telephone because he could not afford a sales staff, Wang was doing well enough two years later to buy out his Swiss partners for an undisclosed price." Bart -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 10:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Charles B. Wang, former Islanders owner dies, his attorney says | Newsday This email originated from outside of the organization. That timeline is approximately correct. However, I am talking about the acquisition of only the sort product which must have been somewhere around 1978 or before. I started in 79. Chuck Arney > On Oct 22, 2018, at 9:12 PM, Wayne Driscoll <[email protected]> > wrote: > > CA-Sort was a CA product well before the Pansophic acquisition. Pansophic > wasn't acquired until 1991, while CA-Sort was available in the late 70's or > early 80's at the latest. > > Wayne Driscoll > Rocket Software > Note - All opinions are strictly my own. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Chuck > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 5:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Charles B. Wang, former Islanders owner dies, his attorney says > | Newsday > > IIRC CA-SORT was acquired from Pansophic. It was originally PANSORT. > > Chuck Arney > >> On Oct 22, 2018, at 4:46 PM, Glenn Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I was told that CA-SORT was designed by someone named Max, I don't recall >> his last name. In late 1978, development of CA-SORT for DOS/VS(E) was >> transferred to the USA from a couple of folks in Germany. >> >> When the software development group was transferred from Danbury, CT to >> Jericho, NY, I remember Charles stopping by my office occasionally when he >> would need to chat with Russ. He once told me that he "almost" felt bad >> about how "little" salary he paid us vs the number of CA-SORT licenses they >> were closing each month. "Almost". >> >> Glenn >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > ================================ > Rocket Software, Inc. and subsidiaries ■ 77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham MA 02451 ■ > Main Office Toll Free Number: +1 855.577.4323 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
