UCCEL Corp, previously called University Computing Company ("UCC"), was a data processing

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on the campus of

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. It was founded by the Wyly brothers (Sam and Charles, Jr.) in 1963. Oral history interview with Sam Wyly

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, University of Minnesota The name change in the mid-1980s was brought about by Gregory Liemandt, placed as CEO by the majority

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, a Swiss citizen named Walter Haefner through Careal Holding AG of Zurich. Uccel's "big-ticket item" claim to fame was software called UCC-1/TMS ( Tape Management System), an

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product for managing the

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in an OS/MVS

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environment. In 1980, they developed their second "big hitter" and most profitable product, UCC-7 (

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). The UCC-1, UCC-7, UCC-11 ( batch job rerun/restart add-on) suite led the market for tape management and job scheduling. In 1986, UCCEL Corporation purchased Cambridge Systems Group, Inc., which marketed for SKK, Inc. and their market-leading

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mainframe security product. In June 1987, Uccel was unexpectedly bought out by its archrival,

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, which aggressively sold directly competing products CA-Dynam/TLMS (tape management), CA-Scheduler and batch job scheduling products originally from Capex Corporation (flagship products "Optimizer" and "TLMS") and Value Software, plus CA-Top Secret (security / mainframe

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References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231947/http://www.horatioalger.com/members/member_info.cfm?memberid=wyl70 *http://www.samandcharleswyly.com/sam-wyly-business-industry-texas.htm *http://www.umich.edu/~msjrnl/backmsj/011397/wyly.html Southern Methodist University Service companies of the United States CA Technologies {{business-stub