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43-563: Pivotal Software was formed in 2012 after spinning out of EMC Corporation and VMware (which was majority-owned by EMC). The name came from the Pivotal Labs LLC which had been acquired by EMC, and briefly used the name GoPivotal, Incorporated. On April 24, 2013, the organization announced a US$ 105 million investment from General Electric (for 10% equity) and Pivotal One, including Cloud Foundry for cloud computing . Paul Maritz became Pivotal's chief executive immediately after

86-484: A cash-and-stock deal valued at $ 67 billion, which as of 2021 remains the largest-ever acquisition in the technology sector. The combination of Dell's enterprise server, personal computer, and mobile businesses with EMC's enterprise storage business was a significant vertical merger of IT giants. Dell offered $ 24.05 per share of EMC, and $ 9.05 per share of tracking stock in VMware . On September 7, 2016, Dell Inc. completed

129-579: A cloud computing model and to analyze big data . LenovoEMC, formerly Iomega, sells storage products. The following table includes the listing and timeline of EMC Corporation's major acquisitions of other companies since 1996. In 2012, EMC sponsored The Human Face of Big Data, a globally crowdsourced media project focusing on the ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real-time. The Human Face of Big Data, produced by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, includes "a number of fascinating stories ... [that] represent some of

172-423: A decline in its lucrative business of servicing computers made by Prime (and other manufacturers), a significant contributor to its already-declining revenues. A planned 1989 layoff of 1,200 employees became much more: over 6,000, thus Prime's workforce dropped by over half, from 12,386 employees in 1988 to 5,900 by the end of 1991. After the computer design and manufacturing portions of the company were shut down,

215-677: A definitive agreement to acquire Pivotal Software was signed on August 22, 2019. The merger was completed on December 30, 2019. VMware folded Pivotal into the Tanzu application suite, with the Pivotal Labs consulting group rebranding to become VMware Tanzu Labs in January 2021. EMC Corporation Dell EMC ( EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton , Massachusetts , and Round Rock , Texas , and

258-604: A former Prime employee. The company operating system, PRIMOS was originally written mostly in the Fortran IV programming language with some assembler. Subsequently, the PL/P and Modula-2 languages were used in the Kernel. A number of new PRIMOS utilities were written in SP/L which was similar to PL/P. "Phantoms" were a form of unattended background processes that immediately began to run in

301-615: A package smaller than the original CDCs. In addition, the PRIMOS operating system would run unaltered across all Prime platforms; from the 2250 up to 750 (what would be considered today as a server). As a result, the Data Collector (rooms) would contain several 750 class machines, each with rows of CDC 300 or 600 MB drives. Primenet ( Token Ring ) network connected all CAD stations in a building with its Data Collector. Ford pushed PDGS out to its suppliers and engineering contractors throughout

344-470: A series of evolutions and acquisitions Prime Information is now an obsolete part of the Rocket U2 software suite. In c.  1984 , Prime developed a system to conflict with OAS and confuse the market. Prime Information Connection added word processing to Prime Information, giving the company two office oriented suites to offer in a marketplace dominated by Wang Laboratories . Prime originally entered

387-414: Is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies . Dell EMC sells data storage , information security , virtualization , analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable organizations to store, manage, protect, and analyze data. Dell EMC's target markets include large companies and small- and medium-sized businesses across various vertical markets. The company's stock (as EMC Corporation)

430-495: The CAD industry through Ford . At the time, Ford was using Control Data Corporation (CDC) stand-alone computers. Data was shared via reel tape and stored in "Data Collector" rooms at each facility. Ford began looking for a small computer that had all the advantages of the CDC computers, but could also connect to a network. Prime’s 2250 ("Rabbit") offered the combination Ford was looking for in

473-654: The Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), developed by Richard Pick for the American Department of Defense. Devcom, a Microdata reseller, wrote a Pick-style database system called INFORMATION in FORTRAN and assembler in 1979 to run on Prime Computer 50-series systems. INFO/BASIC, a variant of Dartmouth BASIC , was used for database applications. It was then sold to Prime Computer and renamed Prime INFORMATION. Unlike

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516-514: The Symmetrix , in 1990. While some of EMC's growth is credited to acquisitions of smaller companies, Symmetrix was the main factor in EMC's rapid growth during the 1990s, from a firm valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars to a multi-billion dollar company. In 2009 EMC signed a two-year deal to be the principal shirt sponsor for English Rugby Union club London Wasps in a deal worth £1 Million. This

559-505: The "Best Chief Executive Officers in America" by Worth magazine; and one of Network World ' s "25 Most Powerful People in Networking". Ahead of their acquisition by Dell, EMC gained a reputation for oppressive non-compete agreements and non-compete lobbying through AIM (Associated Industries of Massachusetts) On October 12, 2015, Dell Inc. announced its intent to acquire EMC in

602-627: The "Prime Producer 200" (launched in 1984), each of which had far superior WP to the initial Prime offering, and were document-based. In the UK, Prime had a very active OAS User Group whose suggestions were acted upon in new product development. UK Pioneers of the system included the London Docklands Development Corporation and Oxford Polytechnic , now Oxford Brookes University. Both the Pick environment and Prime Information were based on

645-543: The CAD/CAM system, branded as Prime MEDUSA. Enhancements included support of SunOS (also supported by CIS MEDUSA), a shaded viewer (based on Movie.BYU), and additional 3d visualization. Prime embarked on a project headed by Vladimir Geisberg to build a CAD-CAM system of its own called PRIMEDesign. This product was to compete with the industry leader at that time, CADDS4 from Computervision . RISC processors from MIPS Technologies and graphics processors from Silicon Graphics created

688-517: The Pick operating system, a complete operating system, Prime Information was not an operating system, but a 4GL system that ran from the Prime PRIMOS operating system. Prime Information was a re-implementation which deliberately left out some features and added others. Prime Information allowed rapid 4GL or 4GL-like development of applications around relational or quasi-relational database structures. After

731-603: The Prime and Computervision versions of the Medusa CAD system, and launch Prime Design. As time passed, it became clear that Prime Design, while leading edge, in theory, was unsuitable for real engineering design work, and Prime Design was ended. By the late eighties, the company was having problems retaining customers who were moving to lower-cost systems, as minicomputers entered their decline to obsolescence. Prime failed to keep up with customers' increasing need for raw computing power. By

774-590: The background when initiated by the PHANTOM command. "Conventional" batch jobs were initiated via the JOB command, including the ability to schedule them for a particular time. CPL, the PRIMOS Command Processing Language was the shell scripting language . The PRIMOS text editor ED was a line editor . It could record a command sequence and replay it on different files. EMACS , a full screen editor ,

817-647: The company. The company was started by seven founders, some of whom worked on the Multics project at MIT . The company started with the motto "Software First" . Poduska left in 1981, to start Apollo Computer . His successor was 27-year IBM executive Joe M. Henson , although Prime's president, Kenneth G. Fisher , had briefly been the interim top executive. The initial offerings by Prime were clones of Honeywell's DDP 316 and 516 minicomputers. Main competitors were Digital Equipment Corporation , Data General and Hewlett-Packard . As of June 1975 time-sharing

860-608: The concept of parametrically driven geometry , which led to a PRIMEDesign system. The company also acquired marketing and development rights to the MEDUSA CAD system, initially developed in England by Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS), and having experience in the domain, the company explored transitioning to a CAD company. In 1982, Prime built a development team around the MEDUSA software and subsequently released several enhanced versions of

903-552: The end, not a single Prime computer was subject to COCOM export controls, as they were insufficiently powerful for the US Government to fear their falling into the hands of hostile powers. In 1988, financier Bennett S. LeBow attempted a hostile takeover of Prime, leveraging his much smaller MAI Basic Four company. To stave off LeBow, Prime management organized a $ 1.3 billion " white knight " leveraged buyout by J.H. Whitney & Company . Various problems dogged this project,

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946-444: The holding company organized by Whitney went bankrupt, and the resulting severe financial distress made it much harder for Prime to deal with the accelerating downturn in its core business. Prime's 1991 revenues of $ 1.2 billion were 25% lower than their 1988 revenues of $ 1.6 billion. Its computer sales were down by more than half ($ 377 million in 1989, $ 170 million in 1991), and by 1992 no new Prime Computers were being sold, portending

989-484: The merger, which involved the issuance of $ 45.9 billion in debt and $ 4.4 billion common stock. At the time, some analysts claimed that Dell's acquisition of the former Iomega could harm the LenovoEMC partnership. In addition to those of the majority-owned Pivotal company, Dell EMC sells products and services, including products from other Dell Technologies companies, designed to allow IT departments to move to

1032-513: The most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future". Prime Computer Prime Computer, Inc. was a Natick, Massachusetts -based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. With the advent of PCs and the decline of the minicomputer industry, Prime was forced out of the market in the early 1990s, and by the end of 2010 the trademarks for both PRIME and PRIMOS no longer existed. The alternative spellings "PR1ME" and "PR1MOS" were used as brand names or logos by

1075-557: The northern Midwest. Prime gained expertise over the years with its collaboration with Ford and continued to expand into the CAD market with its Medusa product. With the acquisition of ComputerVision, Prime appeared to be a formidable force in the CAD/ CAM industry. Prime Medusa versions 5 and CV Medusa 7 were merged/recombined into a product that was called Medusa version 12. Prime also picked up Calma CAD systems from GE . Electronic messaging

1118-483: The only viable business that remained was the Computervision subsidiary, an early pioneer in CAD / CAM , which was acquired in a hostile takeover 1988. Prime was renamed Computervision, which in 1992 sold the declining remnants of its Prime Information subsidiary to VMark Software Inc . Computervision was subsequently successfully acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation in 1998, a company founded in 1985 by

1161-492: The platform for PRIMEDesign as well as being the genesis of modern-day SGI . During this period, in 1985, Sam Geisberg left Computervision to found Parametric Technology Corporation and produce a parameter driven CAD system called ProEngineer . Computervision acquired Cambridge Interactive Systems in 1983, and Prime independently developed their version of MEDUSA. Prime subsequently purchased Computervision , and Vladimir Geisberg, then VP for CAD, tried to merge back together

1204-673: The spin-out. Maritz had joined EMC in February 2008 when Pi Corporation, a company he co-founded, was acquired and was previously the CEO of VMware. The Greenplum Database (acquired by EMC in 2010) formed the basis of a division selling software for the big data market. In March 2013, a distribution of Apache Hadoop called Pivotal HD was announced, including a version of the Greenplum software for it called Hawq. Jason Hurst served as Chief of Staff and VP, Head of Corporate Development for Pivotal, where he

1247-449: The terminal was turned on. The terminal allowed the user to work on one page at a time, which was periodically saved to the minicomputer. This "intelligent workstation" concept for word processing was similar to the functions of popular systems from rival Wang Laboratories . Prime's intelligent workstation for word processing was faster because it used RS232C cabling runs instead of the coaxial links that Wang's systems used. Nonetheless,

1290-547: The word processing was not of the highest quality, and the PT65 was subject to software errors that scrambled the documents being worked on. OAS also had a bilingual language lookup feature, sometimes marketed as machine translation. Recognising the drawbacks of the downloadable WP workstation, Prime formed an agreement with Convergent Technologies for their AWS which Prime named the "Prime Producer 100" (launched in mid 1983) and later for Convergent's modular NGEN, clip together system,

1333-569: Was Prime's largest end-user market, and 25% of revenue was from OEM . Overseas markets provided 42% of revenue in the first quarter of 1975. PRIMENET and a local area networking software product named RINGNET were announced. Prime also marketed MEDUSA CAD software. By 1987, Prime Computer had introduced an alternative line of Intel 80386-based computers, the EXL-316 series, running the Unix operating system. A "new line of Unix-based EXL-7000 computers"

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1376-580: Was a step up: a procedural language more compact than COBOL, and with additional capabilities. It was offered by Computer Techniques, Inc. of Olyphant, Pa. Queo later was reimplemented for PCs. Prime acquired the OAS application from its developer, ACS America Inc., a now-defunct New York City software house. It competed in the UK DTI Office Automation Pilot, but did not win. OAS included electronic mail and word processing. Electronic mail use

1419-629: Was able to perform the same functions and was used to send software updates as well as all sorts of attachments between systems. In August 1993, Robert Ullmann, David Robinson and Al Costanzo wrote RFC 1505. This RFC, documented the Encoding Header Field for Internet Messages that PDN mail used and was published by the RFC editor, Jon Postel that same year. A series of memorable advertisements created by Australian artist Rone Waugh in 1980 featured actors Tom Baker and Lalla Ward as their characters from

1462-687: Was added to the New York Stock Exchange on April 6, 1986, and was also listed on the S&;P 500 index. EMC acquired Iomega in 2008, and a 2013 partnership with Lenovo resulted in the rebranding of Iomega as LenovoEMC . EMC was acquired by Dell in 2016, which led to the joint venture with Lenovo dissolving. At that time, Forbes noted EMC's "focus on developing and selling data storage and data management hardware and software and convincing its customers to buy its products independent of their other IT buying decisions" based on "best-of-breed." It

1505-406: Was also available. Advent Online Knowledge, Inc. was a Schaumburg, Illinois -based producer of software for Prime computers. Marc Software International, Inc. of Palo Alto, California produced WordMARC word processing software for Prime computers. While Prime's PRIMOS operating system supported one or more compilers/interpreters for COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, RPG and 2 Assemblers , Queo

1548-708: Was announced in late 1990. The company was successful in the 1970s and 1980s, peaking in 1988 at number 334 of the Fortune 500 . In 1985, the company was the sixth largest in the minicomputer sector, with estimated revenues of US $ 564 million Much of this was based on the U.S. Banking industry where the Prime Info database was widely accepted. As of later 1989, Surrey University had the largest Prime Site in Europe, having multiple copies of virtually every 50 series machine (mostly running Primos 20.x, but some still running 19.x). Prime

1591-530: Was announced, including Ford investments. EMC also converted US$ 400 million of debt into equity at that time. In March 2018, the company filed for an initial public offering , debuting on the NYSE on April 20, 2018. The trading price began at $ 15 a share, and closed with a 5% increase on its first day. The company raised $ 555 million in the IPO. On August 14, 2019, VMware announced merger discussions with Pivotal, and

1634-407: Was developed on relay.prime.com , which was the hub that relayed global electronic mail for Prime Computer. The software used on this computer system , PDN Mail, developed by Robert Ullmann, was designed to use the encoding header field that was later explained in a Request for Comments . PDN Mail was also used by Microsoft Corporation until MIME was introduced. Before MIME existed, PDN Mail

1677-614: Was heavily involved with Ford’s internal computer-aided design (CAD) product, Product Design Graphics System (PDGS). Design engineers used PDGS for auto body design, and finite element analysis using NASTRAN . It used a vectorscope from Lundy for a display. At one time in the 1980s, PDGS was the world's largest integrated CAD system, spanning the US, Japan (Mazda was Ford's subsidiary/partner), (Cologne) Germany, (Dunton) England, and (Geelong) Australia. The creators of PDGS, located in building #3 of Ford's Dearborn design headquarters, began working on

1720-454: Was initially restricted to a single minicomputer. Much later, Prime released email that worked with multiple Prime computers in a network, and a synchronised global directory system. Word processing was available either on dumb terminals like the PT25, PT45 and PST100, or on the partially intelligent PT65 terminal. The PT65 had to download the word processing software from the host minicomputer whenever

1763-406: Was later extended until the end of the 2013 season. Michael Ruettgers joined EMC in 1988 and served as CEO from 1992 until January 2001. Under Ruettgers' leadership, EMC revenues grew from $ 120 million to nearly $ 9 billion 10 years later, and the company shifted its focus from memory boards to storage systems. Ruettgers was named one of BusinessWeek ' s "World's Top 25 Executives"; one of

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1806-551: Was later renamed to Dell EMC. Dell uses the EMC name with some of its products. EMC, founded in 1979 by Richard Egan and Roger Marino (the E and M of EMC), introduced its first 64- kilobyte (65,536 bytes) memory boards for the Prime Computer in 1981. EMC continued to develop memory boards for other computer types. In the mid-1980s, the company expanded beyond memory to other computer data storage types and networked storage platforms. EMC began shipping its flagship product,

1849-403: Was responsible for strategic initiatives and complex projects, including M&A and investments. Mr. Hurst also led M&A at VMware and helped to navigate the process of establishing Pivotal. Paul Maritz became Pivotal's Chairman and Rob Mee, founder of Pivotal Labs, became chief executive officer of Pivotal Software on August 18, 2015. In May 2016, a US$ 253 million round of investment

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