D&B Software
{{Short description|Software company, focused on accounting software}}
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Dun & Bradstreet Software Services, often shortened to D&B Software, 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.{{Cite news
|newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/28/business/hard-road-for-software-merger.html
|title=Hard Road for Software Merger
|last=Rifkin |first=Glenn |date=August 28, 1991
|access-date=September 14, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}} In 1982, McCormack & Dodge was described by The New York Times as "one of the nation's top three financial software concerns."{{cite news
|newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/05/business/acquisition-by-dun-unit-rumored.html
|title=Acquisition by Dun Unit Rumored
|date=May 5, 1982}}
Overview
After the merger, the separate company headquarters, located in Massachusetts and Atlanta, were retained with videoconferencing used for communication.{{cite magazine |magazine=CIO magazine
|last=Santosus |first=Megan |date=May 1, 1992
|title=Held Over by Popular Demand |page=164 |volume=5 |issue=11
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAoAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64 |access-date=2011-04-15 }} 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{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/24/business/company-news-new-product-a-big-test-for-dun-bradstreet.html
|title=New Product a Big Test For Dun & Bradstreet |date=March 24, 1992}} that ran on HP-UX.{{cite magazine
|last=Korzeniowski |first=Paul |date=June 13, 1994 |page=63
|title=Counting Beans on the LAN |volume=16 |issue=24 |magazine=InfoWorld
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63 | access-date=2011-04-15}} Smartstream 3.0 was introduced in early 1995.{{cite news |newspaper=Computerworld
|url=https://www.computerworld.es/archive/db-software-presenta-smartstream-30
|title=D&B Software presenta SmartStream 3.0
|date=February 10, 1995}}
Geac
In 1996, D&B Software was acquired for US$150 million by the Canadian client-server application firm Geac Computer Corporation, who immediately split the services into two divisions.{{cite web
|work=CNET News |title=Geac divides D&B software
|date=November 14, 1996
|url=http://news.cnet.com/Geac-divides-DB-software/2100-1001_3-246947.html
|access-date=2011-04-15 }}
See also
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Category:1990 mergers and acquisitions
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