"ADS" (pronounced "A-D-S") was the acronym for "Application
Development Systems, Inc". I remember that company, but it no longer
exists, and the name was so generic that Google searches come up with
a lot of hits, none of which are on point.
Dave Cole
At 9/24/2019 02:56 PM, David Staudacher wrote:
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??
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