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Conference nyoss1::market_investing

Title:Market Investing
Moderator:2155::michaud
Created:Thu Jan 23 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1060
Total number of notes:10477

736.0. "Who bought ASK?" by TLE::PERIQUET (Dennis Periquet) Thu Jun 30 1994 13:24

    
    ASK was recently bought by some company -- does anyone know what that
    company was?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Dennis
    
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736.1PARVAX::SCHUSTAKThe Few, The Proud...Digital!Thu Jun 30 1994 14:271
    Computer Associates
736.2ThanksTLE::PERIQUETDennis PeriquetThu Jun 30 1994 18:320
736.3NYOSS1::SAMBAMURTYRajaFri Jul 01 1994 13:464
    ... and to continue the CA/ASK/Ingres saga, about 100 employees (mostly
    engineers from Ingres) have quit the company rather than be part of CA.
    I think the dispute was mostly due to insurance coverage of domestic
    partners.
736.4CA is known to buy companies and fire the employeesUCROW::PEARSONTue Jul 05 1994 19:313
    CA has a reputation for getting rid of a lot of the employees of the
    companies it takes over.  I met one person to whom that happened.  CA
    took the assets and basically got rid of all the employees.
736.5TLE::PERIQUETDennis PeriquetWed Jul 06 1994 13:2310
    
    re: .-1
    
    Interesting comment.  My friend who (still) works at ASK was
    apprehensive, because of CA's reputation, for a while about
    whether he'd still have a job.  As of about a week ago, he was
    informed that he will be staying -- but several are being let go.
    
    Dennis