I'm trying to nail down the origin of Xpediter. We all know it is now exclusively marketed by Compuware, but was this*always* the case? I find *multiple* Computerworld articles from the mid-80s with ads by "Application Development Systems, Inc" promoting an IBM Mainframe Batch/TSO/VM/CICS debugging product called "Xpediter".
For examples, see: http://books.google.com/books?id=mXEbp4U3AT8C&pg=PA103 http://books.google.com/books?id=0OuJCcQkEzEC&pg=PA10-IA29 http://books.google.com/books?id=a8FBzsfoBZEC&pg=PA87 None of these ads give *any* indication that Xpediter is a Compuware product, yet the description *clearly* matches the Compuware product we all know. Was this a product which Compuware later acquired? ( I doubt this, as I find other pages which say Compuware launched Xpediter v1.0 some time in the '70s ) Was this a true competing product from a *different* vendor which just happened to have the same name as the famous Compuware product? ( I doubt this as I'm sure Compuware would have filed a lawsuit for trademark infrigement but I can't find any evidence that such a suit was ever filed) Was "Application Development Systems" a licensee which sold Xpediter independently? ( This seems most likely, yet I can find no evidence to conclusively support this ) Anyone here know the skinny on this? Gregory Kurtz?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
