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Informatics, Inc.
Year Founded:
1962
Founder(s):
Dr. Walter F. Bauer
Werner Frank
Richard Hill
Francis V. (Frank) Wagner
Location:
Woodland Hills, CA
Description:
Informatics was founded as a software contracting firm but expanded into software
products after acquiring Advanced Information Systems (AIS) from Hughes Dynamics in 1964.
AIS, under the leadership of John A. Postley, had developed a file management system run
on IBM 701s, 704s and 709s for Douglas Aircraft which was converted to run on the IBM 1401
and renamed Mark I. This became the precursor to Informatics' product Mark IV which was
the first software product to have cumulative sales of $10 million and then $100 million.
Year of First Public Offering:
1966
Final Year in Business:
1985
Disposition:
Acquired by Sterling Software
Price, if sold:
$130 million
Current contact information:
Not applicable
Sources for additional information:
Bauer, Walter F. "Informatics: An Early Software Company." IEEE Annals of
the History of Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr-Jun 1996): 70-76.
Bauer, Walter F. "Informatics and (et) Informatique." Software History
Center. Anecdotes/Bauer1, 1996.
Bauer, Walter F., interview by Robina Mapstone. May 14, 1973. Oral History 55. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
Bauer, Walter F., interview by Arthur Norberg. May 16, 1983, Woodland Hills, CA. Oral
History 61. Charles Babbage Institute, University of
Minnesota.
Forman, Richard L. Fulfilling the Computer’s Promise: The History of
Informatics, 1962-1968. Woodland Hills, California: Informatics, 1985.
Postley, John A. "Mark IV: Evolution of the Software Product, A Memoir." IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan-Mar 1998): 43-50.
Wagner, Francis V. Papers, 1946-1985, CBI 6. Charles
Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
Sources for information on this page:
Bauer, Walter F. "Informatics: An Early Software Company." IEEE Annals of
the History of Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr-Jun 1996): 70-76.
Forman, Richard L. Fulfilling the Computer’s Promise: The History of
Informatics, 1962-1968. Woodland Hills, California: Informatics, 1985.
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