I think there are positive ways to view this.
- According to one report Broadcom has a history of buying troubled
companies and turning them around.
- If prices go up, some sites will be forced to drop products that are
not used much, or are otherwise not earning their keep, in favor o
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:36:59 +, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>I was confronted with a letter that started with "Thank you for
>being an alpha test site for our product".
Phil Payne is gone, and so is his web site, but it lives on at the
wayback machine. His Devils IT dictionary at
http://web.archive
On 7/13/2018 8:45 AM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Goal was acquired by Legent, which itself was formed when Morino Associates
and Duquesne Systems merged. They didn't use my suggested name for that
merger: Dorito.
I was at Morino Associates when the merger with Duquesne and subsequent
renaming
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And Cybermation. Company I worked for was getting rid of CA pr
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I seem to recall a (probably apocryphal) story about a data centre manager who
had an argument with CA and vowed to rid his site of all CA products as a
result.
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Wayne Bickerdike wrote, in part, re CA:
>Over the years they also swallowed Pansophic, Plati
Wayne Bickerdike wrote, in part, re CA:
>Over the years they also swallowed Pansophic, Platinum, the IDMS guys
>(Cullinane/Cullinet?) and lots of others. Not sure what happened to Goal
>Systems, they had some good stuff too.
Goal was acquired by Legent, which itself was formed when Morino As
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> Hmm. We have a few CA products, but our entire enterprise is constructed
> around Brocade switches. Oh my.
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Hmm. We have a few CA products, but our entire
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$19bn to meld
$19bn to meld chipmaker and software museum into mission-critical amalgam
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/12/broadcom_ca_technologies/
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