Re: ACS Optima software ?

ACS started out as Apparel Computer Systems in Concord, CA. It was founded 
in the 70's by Lou Jenkins. It was fairly successful in selling into the 
apparel industry. Platform was S/34, then S/36. I don't recall if he ever 
had a S/38 product. At any rate, the apparel industry began to get 
pressured by the retailers to get into what became known as EDI. Lou saw 
the benefits of being able to accommodate these requests, and sat a team 
of programmers down to write telecommunications software that interfaced 
between his package and the software being used by the retailers. T-Spec 
and ICF programming being what it was, I pitied those poor programmers (my 
company shared some office space with ACS).

Eventually Lou sold ACS and focused his efforts on the EDI software. His 
next software company eventually became Premenos, which became Harbinger, 
etc., etc. When Lou sold Premenos, the story going around the Bay area was 
that he retired and went sailing. Perhaps those list lurkers in the San 
Francisco area can shed some additional light. Many of the programmers in 
the over 45 age group in the Bay area seem to have worked for ACS/Premenos 
at one time or another.


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978  Cell
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx





"Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Anyone familiar with ACP Optima software ? Just curious, have a friend
working on this software and I'd never heard of it.

 

http://www.cgsinc.com/services/application/supplychain/acs/

 

Chuck

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