MainView

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MainView
Industry office automation software
Founded1990
Founder Boole & Babbage

MainView, currently advertised as BMC MainView, [1] is a systems management software produced by BMC Software. It was created in 1990 by Boole & Babbage [2] and became part of BMC Software's services after they bought out Boole & Babbage in a stock swap.

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History

MainView was created in 1990 by Boole & Babbage as office automation software, designed specifically to work on IBM hardware. The product was designed so that companies would be able to automate their data management systems as well as being able to control what is automated within each enterprise. [3] In 1993, it was updated to include support for parallel processors. [4]

The system gained popularity with users being pleased with its real-time data however expressed dissatisfaction with its usage of counterfactual history to make decisions. [5] In 1998, following BMC Software's purchase of Boole & Babbage, they announced that they would continue to operate MainView by directly integrating it with their IBM hardware products rather than continuing to sell it as specifically as a separate software product. [6] BMC Software continued to upgrade MainView to be compatible with new technologies. In 2016, MainView was upgraded to be compatible with Java Environments. [7]

Advertising

In 1993, Boole & Babbage signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to license Star Trek for use in their advertising. The first way they used it was to advertise MainView. They produced a short advertising film titled "The Vision", which included Star Trek: The Next Generation 's Commander William Riker (played by Jonathan Frakes, with whom B&B also signed a spokesman's deal) using MainView on the bridge of the USS Enterprise to promote MainView. [8] Boole & Babbage also used Frakes to promote MainView in person at the Computer Measurement Group conference as well as to announce that MainView would become available for singular desktop computers later in that year. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mainframe System Management with MainView". BMC Software UK. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  2. ↑ "MainView". Justia Trademarks. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  3. ↑ Computerworld 8 Oct 1990. Vol. 24 (41 ed.). IDG Enterprise. 1990. p. 41. ISSN   0010-4841.
  4. ↑ "MainView goes parallel". Software Industry Report. Archived from the original on 2016-09-10. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  5. ↑ Computerworld 29 Nov 1993. IDG Enterprise. 1993. p. 104. ISSN   0010-4841.
  6. ↑ "BMC discloses some plans for Boole & Babbage". Computergram International . Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  7. ↑ "BMC Unveils MainView for Java Environments Enabling a Transaction Engine for Digital Business". Wireless News. Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  8. ↑ TrekCore Staff (October 2013). "EXCLUSIVE: Inside Boole & Babbage's Trek 'Vision'". TrekCore. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  9. ↑ "Commander Riker highlights Boole blitz. (actor Jonathan Frakes makes appearance with Boole & Babbage Inc. at CMG Conference) (firm's MainView for OS/2 application)". Software Magazine. Archived from the original on 2014-06-29. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
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