Re: AS/SET History

[Robert Hunter <rhhwfh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, this was a long time ago. In 1981, I worked with Roger Covey, Glenn Marick and David Semmel at a company in Chicago named PCR (Professional Computer Resources). Those three people left PCR and founded SSA and wrote BPCS for the Sytem 34, then the System 38 and then the AS/400. I left in 1983 and founded Outlook Software, which wrote Outlook/38 (later BBM) and Outlook / Report Writer (later BIR). Covey later bought my company, which was integtated into SSA and its product line. 
 
Another bit of history is that Sohaib Abbassi, the Senior Executive VP at Oracle from 1984 to 2004, the original author of SQL Forms, and now president, CEO and Chairman of Informatica in CA was a programmer at PCR, whose cubicle was right next to mine. We became good friends, and in 1983-84 I use to go over to Sohaib's apartment, we'd order pizza, and he would show me the SQL forms product that he was writing for Oracle, and I'd show him the Outlook/38 product that I was basing Outlook Software on.
 
Regards,  Robert Hunter


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From: Micki Rogers <mrogers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: BPCS ERP System <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] AS/SET History

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On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nope, you don't know me.  I was just curious.  Thanks for the great post
> on the history of AS/SET.  Since all these things happened before my time
> on this system its interesting to learn about all the ups and downs of its
> history.
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> Thanks
> Bryce Martin
> Programmer/Analyst I
> 570-546-4777
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> > And you would or would not be the same Robert Hunter referring to himself
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> > Thanks
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> > Programmer/Analyst I
> > 570-546-4777
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> > For you BPCS
> > history buffs, AS/SET was developed in 1989 and released in Jan. 1990 by
> > SSA
> > under Roger Covey, the founder and then CEO of SSA. Roger had tried to
> buy
> > Synon
> > and one other company out of Australia that had a CASE tool at the time,
> > but to
> > no avail.
> > To
> > develop AS/SET, Roger approached Robert Hunter, the former owner of
> > Outlook
> > Software, a company that SSA had bought in 1987 that was the author of
> BIR
> > (BPCS Information Retrieval), and BBM (BPCS Business Modeling). Hunter,
> as
> > a
> > result of the acquisition, was at that time a product manager at SSA.
> > After
> > AS/SET was released, Hunter and the 6 programmers he assembled to write
> > AS/SET
> > became the basis for the CASE laboratory, a division of SSA that became
> > their
> > R& D facility – in Westmont, IL,  offsite
> > from SSA’s corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago. The CASE lab
> > eventually
> > employed almost 100 people but was disbanded when Covey left SSA around
> > 1992-93.
> > Virtually no work was done on AS/SET after this, and SSA subsequently
> went
> > bankrupt after a succession of failed CEOs.
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> > Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 2:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] ASSET (Will Hogan)
> >
> > Yeah and the nice part about that is there are bigger hammers. :)
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rob <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: BPCS ERP System <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 2:04 pm
> > Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] ASSET (Will Hogan)
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> > Hey, if it works for you that's cool.  Nice discipline.  So, how do you
> > et AS/SET to read an entire XML file stored as a stream file in the IFS
> > nd put it into data structures like you can do with a single RPG op code?
> > .1 of RPG allows you to read the results of an SQL stored procedure.  How
>
> > id AS/SET address this?
> > am just saying if your only tool is a hammer then all problems appear to
> > e nails.
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> it
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