Attachmate Corporation is a 1982-founded software company which focused on secure terminal emulation, legacy integration, and managed file transfer software.

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-compatibility and Attachment ''Reflection'' were enhanced/added offerings.

History and products

Attachmate Corporation

Attachmate was founded in 1982 by Frank W. Pritt. It focused initially on the IBM terminal emulation market, and became a major technology employer in the Seattle area.

KeaTerm

KEAsystems' KEAterm products were PC software packages that emulated some of

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's VT terminals, and facilitated integrating Windows-based PCs with multiple host applications. These included KEAterm VT340 and VT420

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s, and KEA X

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software). KEA was acquired by Attachmate.

DCA IRMA

Another acquisition was DCA (

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) (makers of IRMA line of terminal emulators, INFOconnect, Crosstalk communications software, and OpenMind

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). DCA was also known for its 3270 IRMA hardware product (used for SDLC), and ISCA SDLC hardware adapters. They also supported driver downloads.

Extra!

The Attachmate Extra! family of terminal emulator packages was built to include

3270 The IBM 3270 is a family of block oriented display and printer computer terminals introduced by IBM in 1971 and normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. The 3270 was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text ...

, 5250 and

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Acquisition

After buying both WRQ, Inc. and Attachmate, who had been long-time competitors in the host emulation business, a group of private equity firms announced in 2005 that the companies would be merged under the new ownership. It was announced that Attachmate founder and CEO Frank Pritt would retire at the same time. IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Attachmate, Apache, Cisco, NEC, SAP, Software AG, Adobe Systems, Fujitsu, Oracle, CA Technologies and BonitaSoft, are some of the key players operating in the Global Application Server Market.

References

External links

Micro Focus Attachmate page

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