Computer Corp. of America reclaims name.FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1997-- CCA (1) (Common Cryptographic Architecture) Cryptography software from IBM for MVS and DOS applications. (2) (Compatible Communications A to focus on high-performance, Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. mainframe database systems Praxis prax·is n. pl. prax·es 1. Practical application or exercise of a branch of learning. 2. Habitual or established practice; custom. International announced today that it has reclaimed its historical name, Computer Corporation of America, Inc. The name change has occurred as part of a transaction in which Praxis spun out its data replication line of business into a separate corporation that will retain the Praxis name. This name change reflects CCA's focus on its core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
Richard P. Ryan, previously CFO See Chief Financial Officer. for Praxis, has been named CCA's new president. "We're excited about the focus of the new CCA: providing high performance, high capacity database technology to our customers worldwide," notes Ryan. "We want this to signify sig·ni·fy v. sig·ni·fied, sig·ni·fy·ing, sig·ni·fies v.tr. 1. To denote; mean. 2. To make known, as with a sign or word: signify one's intent. to our customers that CCA is 100 percent committed to providing database solutions to fit their needs. Our mission is to develop and maintain long-standing relationships with our customers by supporting high performance, open access to critical business information, while leveraging their investments in information technology. CCA is focused on taking their customers into the next century as the leading provider of very high performance, very large capacity database products serving the world market." Originally founded in 1965, Computer Corporation of America has concentrated on high capacity database products for IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. systems. In 1992, CCA broadened its product and service offerings with the acquisition of database products for Digital Equipment Corporation's computers. "Our new products and service offerings are addressing the important issues of Year 2000, the World Wide Web and client/server access to the mission critical data managed by CCA databases," said Ryan. "We envision the coming decade to be tremendously bright for CCA," notes Chris Ramsdale, director of marketing for CCA. "We recently carried out a worldwide customer survey and our customers have told us that CCA's database technology is second to none. Just as CCA has always provided the database products of choice for high performance, high capacity, robust on-line applications, we will now bring to bear the power of our technology as the preferred platform for the large-scale, high performance Intranet and Internet databases that we believe will become the norm in the 21st century." About Computer Corporation of America Computer Corporation of America (CCA) is a worldwide provider of high performance, high capacity database management systems. With over 30 years in database technology, CCA provides its customers with high speed data access and data management solutions. CCA is an employee owned company, headquartered in Framingham, Mass., with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and in Europe. Over 1,000 commercial and government organizations worldwide benefit from CCA technology. To learn more about Computer Corporation of America, visit their Web site at www.cca-int.com . CONTACT: Chris Ramsdale Computer Corporation of America 508-270-6679 x356 chris_ramsdale@cca-int.com or Catherine Riedel Harpell/Martins Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most 508-371-1510 x25 criedel@harpell.com |
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