Based on personal experience, CA's business model in those days was to buy up software companies with successful products, hire only the minimum necessary number of senior developers of the product from the purchased company, and then sell, sell, sell.
Intertest, for example, was developed by Online Software International, Librarian by ADR, and Panvalet by Pansophic, and they have all now long been CA products with the originating companies dissolved and disappeared. Would not be at all surprised if Xpeditor started elsewhere and was bought by CA. OTOH they did actually develop some of their own software but AFAIK not the majority of what they sold, so that could be true as well. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of David Staudacher Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors??? 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?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
