Encina (software)

Encina was a DCE-based{{cite journal|last=Cox|first=John|date=18 September 1995|title=New development tools move beyond simple client/server|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dw8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37|journal=Network World|volume=12|issue=38|page=37|issn=0887-7661}} transaction processing system developed by Transarc, which was later acquired by IBM.{{cite book|last=Chorafas|first=Dimitris|title=Transaction Management|date=14 February 1998|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-0-312-21018-2|pages=156–174|doi=10.1057/9780230376533_8|chapter=OSF/1 and the ENCINA Transaction Monitor}}{{cite journal | last=Sherman | first=Mark | title=Architecture of the Encina distributed transaction processing family | journal=ACM SIGMOD Record | volume=22 | issue=2 | date=1993-06-01 | issn=0163-5808 | doi=10.1145/170036.170136 | pages=460–463}}{{cite conference|last=Eppinger|first=J.L.|last2=Dietzen|first2=S.|date=24 Feb 1992|title=Encina: modular transaction processing|conference=Compcon Spring '92. Thirty-Seventh IEEE Computer Society International Conference|publisher=IEEE Comput. Soc. Press|doi=10.1109/cmpcon.1992.186742|isbn=0-8186-2655-0}}

Until 2006 it was used as the basis of IBM TXSeries,{{cite book | last=Veríssimo | first=Paulo | last2=Rodrigues | first2=Luís | title=Advances in Distributed Computing and Middleware | chapter=Dependable Systems and Platforms | publisher=Springer US | location=Boston, MA | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-4613-5666-0 | issn=1569-5190 | doi=10.1007/978-1-4615-1663-7_9 | pages=259–270}} which is a variant of CICS for non-mainframe platforms.