D&B Software

D&B Software
Industry Computer software
Fate acquired by Geac

D&B Software (Dun & Bradstreet Software Services) was formed by the merger of the Management Science America and McCormack & Dodge companies in June 1990, under the ownership of the Dun & Bradstreet corporation. The separate company headquarters, located in Massachusetts and Atlanta, were retained with videoconferencing used for communication.[1] Originally, the merged company was a supplier of financial packages that ran on mainframe computers. In 1991, they released the client-server middleware application suite named SmartStream that ran on HP-UX.[2] In 1996, D&B Software was acquired by the Canadian client-server application firm Geac Computer Corporation for US$150 million, who immediately split the services into two divisions.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Santosus, Megan (May 1, 1992). "Held Over by Popular Demand". CIO. 5 (11): 164. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
  2. ↑ Korzeniowski, Paul (June 13, 1994). "Countine Beans on the LAN". 16: 63. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
  3. ↑ Staff Writer (November 14, 1996). "Geac divides D&B software". CNET News. Retrieved 2011-04-15.


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