Uccel

"UCCEL Corp" is the name that the University Computing Company was changed to. UCC was founded as a data processing service bureau on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas by the Wyly brothers (Sam and Charles Jr) in 1963. The name change was brought about by Gregory Liemandt, placed as CEO by the majority stockholder, a Swiss citizennamed Walter Haefner thru Careal Holding AG of Zurich.

Uccel's big ticket item claim to fame was software called UCC-1/TMS (Tape Management System), an IBM mainframe product for managing the tape library on a system. In 1980, they developed their 2nd big hitter and most profitable, UCC-7 Job Scheduling.

When working at GE General Electric, Gregory Liemandt's superior was Jack Welch. When Liemandt's son Joe, a senior at Stanford (1989), called to tell his father he was dropping out of college to start a new company, his father called him a "Moron." Joe, along with a few friends from college, became founders of software developer "Trilogy Software."

In 1986, UCCEL Corp purchased Cambridge Systems Group, Inc. who marketed SKK and their ACF2 mainframe security product. Then in 1987, Uccel Corp merged with (was bought out by) Computer Associates (CA). This all happened right before SHARE-69 in August 1987 in Chicago.

References

*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