I know this story well.  I used to be a technical support person for CA
until I was made redundent, and in my five years with CA, takeover was the
name of the game.
regards  ...  Terry
At 19:58 30/07/97 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Regarding Computer Associates -
>
>I have a friend who is an MIS manager in an IBM shop at a major
>manufacturer.  That shop had a number of software packages from
>Computer Associates.  Because CA support was so bad, he
>managed to replace one package at a time with some other
>package.  One day he was very happy because he had finally
>gotten rid of all the CA software.  The next time I talked to him,
>he was unhappy, because CA had just bought the company that
>sold one of his new packages.
>
>Cecile Chi   ([log in to unmask])
>
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