Re: QINTER problems: CPF5390, CPF1317, CPF1189, CPF1196

Hey Joe,

Can you expand on your comments a bit about BPCS?  I used it many, many,
MANY years ago and liked it back then (somewhere around 1989/1990).

Were you working there when they chose the SQL course?

I guess what I'm asking for is war stories and gossip. :-)


Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: QINTER problems: CPF5390, CPF1317, CPF1189, CPF1196


> > From: Chuck Lewis
> >
> > By the way, have they ever "gotten their act back together" after the
> near
> > meltdown, etc. ?
>
> It wasn't "near".  They melted down completely.  The move to platform
> independent SQL-driven code drove them into bankruptcy.  I'm not saying
> SQL killed them, or Unix, but the execution of the conversion (lots of
> outsourcing, lots of code cowboys, not a lot of attention to up-front
> design or performance testing) bankrupted the company.
>
> Gores Technology bought them out, they refocused on their core
> competency and began a pretty respectable rise out of the ashes.
> Recently they acquired PRMS, so they're doing a pretty good job of
> consolidating that market.
>
> Joe
>
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