I can add that I think VMark rewrote Prime Information in C which really
boosted the performance. I think they called it Prime Info or something
like that.
Dale
On 06/12/2013 03:31 AM, Brett Callacher wrote:
I think it is a hard task for anyone to remember all this - gets complicated.
This may help:
http://www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html
"Larry Hiscock"<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
If I recall correctly (and I may not ;-), Ardent was the company behind
UniData. Ardent and VMark merged (or Ardent acquired VMark -- I'm not 100%
clear on the details), and retained the Ardent name. Ardent was
subsequently acquired by Informix, which was acquired by IBM, which later
sold the U2 division to Rocket Software.
Larry Hiscock
Western Computer Services
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Taylor
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 6:13 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] History of Prime Information
If I'm not mistaken, there was another company in between Vmark and IBM.
I believe (and there may have been some smoke and mirrors in all this) that
Informatics "acquired" Ardent and then assigned the CEO of Ardent as the
President of Informatics, or something like that, to run both Ardent and
Informatics. And then later, IBM acquired Informatics for their database
and just inherited Vardent almost by accident.
Then, I believe that IBM acquired Unidata and formed the U2 product group.
Certainly someone (Suzie) at Rocket could clarify this and perhaps publish
an document for historical purposes to document this history completely and
accurately.
Dave Taylor
Sysmark Information Systems, Inc.
Prime Computer out of Natick Massachusetts went out of business. One
of their products was PR1ME INFORMATION. They were acquired by another
computer, Computervision (Thank you Mark, I'd forgotten the name).
The product PRIME INFORMATION was acquired by VMark. Vmark was later
acquired by Ardent Software.
I don't remember if there were any companies in between Ardent and
IBM, and while this was going on, there was a separate history
happening for Unidata. Net upshot was that IBM acquired both Universe
and Unidata, and branded them as U2.
Source - my memory, (such as it is). I started playing with PR1ME
INFORMATION on a PR1ME 450-II back in 1978.
I bought disk drives, controllers, and tape units off and on
throughout the years from Computronix, specifically from Randy Styka,
which is where I came into this conversation.
On 4/26/2013 4:18 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
so explain that better
and whats the source?
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Egerton<[email protected]>
To: U2 Users List<[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] TCL input and response logging (AD)
I didn't say vmark acquired prime. I said they acquired prime
information.
(Allen - Sent from my paperweight)
On Apr 26, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Wjhonson<[email protected]> wrote:
That idea doesn't seem right Allen.
I can't find any reference to Vmark acquiring Prime, after Prime's
bankruptcy.
One reference says that the Prime assets all went to ComputerVision,
but it's
just a blog
Anyone have a newspaper article link ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Wjhonson<[email protected]>
To: u2-users<[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:58 am
Subject: Re: [U2] TCL input and response logging (AD)
I'll have to update the wiki poo pea a pages
Who is the woman in this picture?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prime9950_kean.jpg
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Egerton<[email protected]>
To: U2 Users List<[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:31 am
Subject: Re: [U2] TCL input and response logging (AD)
Prime Information was a product running as an application on PRIMOS.
It was acquired by Vmark and subsequently by Advent if memory
serves me correctly.
IBM acquired Universe and Unidata and subsequently sold them to Rocket.
(Allen - Sent from my paperweight)
On Apr 26, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Wjhonson<[email protected]> wrote:
I don't think Universe was ever Prime.
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Egerton<[email protected]>
To: U2 Users List<[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:06 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] TCL input and response logging (AD)
On 4/25/2013 5:36 PM, Randy Styka wrote:
Hi!
It's been a long time since I posted here but our company,
Computronics, has sold a product called PEEK for Unix systems
since 1993. It is most often used for remote support, to see what
is on someone's screen.
And,
if needed to send keystrokes as if they were typing them, to help
them out or close out programs.
But one of the other uses is for logging. PEEK can be set up to
fire off a background process when a user logs in. That process
is independent of the user, and can run under another id. It can
then write a log of either all keystrokes of the user (input only
mode) or of input and the resulting output. Since it runs under a
different id, the logs can be placed where you want and they can't
be modified or accessed by the user being "peeked"
on.
If this is of interest, visit http://www.computronics.com and look
for information on PEEK. The manuals are there and a free trial
is available.
Note we are UNIX only (we don't do Windows ;-)
If you have questions, email me at [email protected]. Thanks!
Randy
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For what it may be worth; I'm happy to vouch for Randy and
Computronics in general. They've been around for Universe since it
was Prime Information and have a stellar reputation.
--
Allen Egerton; [email protected]
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