Oh, yes. Duquesne's BDBF (Billing Data Base Facility, the MICS-alternative for smaller shops) lived on for a while during the "morph" of:
Duquesne/Morino_Associates->Morino_Inc/Goal_Systems/BST->LEGENT->Computer_Associates/CA Could have been the phrase "merger of equals" was coined with the Morino/Duquesne combining forces and only until Goal Systems came into the picture did anyone really see that having to company Headquarters (Pittsburgh and McLean, VA) was ill-conceived and somewhat misleading. Took the likes of Dave Wetmore from Goal Systems (finally, a bean-counter comes on board), John Burton from BST (Endevor), Joe Henson from Prime Computer, and others to grow the company very quickly. And the VC guys (General Atlantic Partners, from the Morino founding days) had confidence that it would eventually work out, and so they didn't mettle in the mess of personality differences and dart-board like attempts at various sales/marketing strategies over the next 5 years. So, in walks Jerre Stead, and in less than a year (after meeting Sanjay), LEGENT disappears, consumed by the well-oiled acquisition machine of CA (cash buyout at $47 dollars a share -- IRS made out much better than some on this deal). That was 16 years ago this month!! Personal stories of Morino Associates parties, holiday treats (damn good liquor) delivered by Mario with a shopping cart with a Santa hat on, and well-deserved fiscal year-end bonuses (did I say outrageous), have molded my professional career while experiencing this "morph" process and other sibling products. What a great ride that was. And to have been acquired by CA twice, once as a Monday morning acquisition (Johnson Systems -- APEX job scheduler, JARS family, UMAX, ALARM hardware monitor) and then again with LEGENT, there are probably more like me than I wish to count. Regards, Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n3_v13/ai_13427334 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n11_v10/ai_9460779 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:09:34 -0500 Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> From: Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: IEFACTRT -----------------SNIP Scott, There *USED* to be a package (called QCM) that did all this and quite a bit more 20 or more years ago. I believe it was written by Glen Chatfield(sp?) of Duquesne systems in Pittsburg. If there was something to account for QCM could produce *VALID* numbers. Like chargeback for paging and even IO timings for anything in the system. IIRC we had a user who disputed the numbers and brought in a hardware monitor to "verify" (contest?) the numbers. The difference was so insignificant that the user coughed up the $$ without admitting defeat. Unfortunately the cost for the product was not cheap and I think that is what lead to the demise of the company. BTW they developed SDSI (now called MIM) on our systems. They also offered a product called STAM which allowed tape drives to be shared among systems. This was in the 70's and perhaps early 80's. When (at the early stages) their software caused any of our systems to crash they were always the first one to step up to the plate with research and debugging that even our local PSR was impressed with. Ed On Aug 3, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Scott Barry wrote: > Consider that job-end statistics (if the output is captured or <big_snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
