Go back to around 1990 and the CA v. Altai lawsuit. CA noticed that one of their ZAPs applied to an Altai module without change - that's how that got started. (Google that for more info.)
I also have some knowledge, given to me by an ex-co-worker, of how CA treated employees who moved from CA to Altai (this dates from the mid 1990's). Let's just say that instead of suing the company, the people themselves were targets of lawsuits. And the way that the defendant was served makes one want to go out and massacre every lawyer in existence. But that was typical of CA of that era. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi French is essentially German with messed-up pronunciation and spelling. --Robert B Wilson English is essentially French converted to 7-bit ASCII. ---Christophe Pierret [for Alain LaBonté] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Long Sent: Friday, 10 August, 2007 07:39 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: CA Sues Rocket Software This has been an interesting discussion. Two observations I'd like to add to the solera are: 1: This is a nearly identical suit to the one CA filed against Quest two or three years ago just as Quest was gaining momentum in the DB2 space. After the appropriate money got spent on legal fees a settlement was reached; Quest still has better tools. 2: The technology allegedly stolen is now 8 years old unless CA has been derelict in their asset protection activities. What an interesting indictment of CA's investment in the relevant tools that they think that the code they bought 8 years ago is still a viable basis for a current product. That may be why they have had trouble supporting V8 and V9 of DB2. These two releases change the specs on nearly every object in DB2 requiring quite a bit of rewriting. I believe Rocket's stuff supports V8 now. Rocket / IBM's tools have been gaining market share often at CA's expense. In both cases it becomes reasonable to suspect that the director of litigation and the director of marketing may have chatted. Edward Long ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
