Editing Attachmate

{{short description|Defunct software company}}
{{about|the original Attachmate founded and run by Frank Pritt that existed from 1982 to 2005|the entity owned by private equity firms and run by Jeff Hawn from 2005 to 2014|The Attachmate Group}}
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| name = Attachmate Corporation
| logo = Attachmate Corporation logo.svg
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| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
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| industry = {{unbulleted list|[[Computer software]]|[[Technology services]]}}
| fate = [[Takeover|Acquired]] by [[The Attachmate Group]] ({{End date|2005|04|18}})
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| foundation = {{Start date and age|1982}}, in [[Bellevue, Washington]], United States
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| location_city = [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
| location_country = United States
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| area_served = Worldwide
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| products = {{unbulleted list|Terminal emulator software|Interoperability software|Security software}}
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| revenue = {{US$|400&nbsp;million|link=yes}}
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| parent = [[OpenText]]
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| homepage = {{URL|http://www.attachmate.com}}
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'''Attachmate Corporation''' is a 1982-founded software company which focused on secure terminal emulation, legacy integration, and managed file transfer software. [[Citrix]]-compatibility<ref>{{cite web
|title=Citrix Compatible Products from Attachmate Corporation
|url=https://citrixready.citrix.com/attachmate-corporation.html
|quote=Attachmate (now part of Micro Focus) .. Citrix Technology Alliance Partner ...  Optimized to run on Citrix XenApp, Attachmate ...
|access-date=2018-09-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914203618/https://citrixready.citrix.com/attachmate-corporation.html
|archive-date=2018-09-14
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> and Attachment ''Reflection''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.attachmate.com/documentation/rweb-12-3sp1/pdfdoc/rweb-reference-guide/rweb-reference-guide.pdf|title=Reflection for the Web Reference Guide}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|title=Solution - Support Portal |website=TriCentis.com
|url=https://support.tricentis.com/community/article.do?number=KB0013448
|quote=You have a Reflection emulator installed and want to scan and steer it with ...
|date=August 31, 2018}}</ref> were enhanced/added offerings.

==History and products==
===Attachmate Corporation===
[[Image:Old Attachmate logo.jpg|thumb|right|Older logo, as of 1988]]
Attachmate was founded in 1982 by [[Frank Pritt|Frank W. Pritt]].<ref name=DC.0>{{cite web
|quote=Key Dates: 1982: Frank Pritt founds Attachmate. 1994: Attachmate merges with DCA.
|title=History of Attachmate Corporation  |website=FundingUniverse.com
|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/attachmate-corporation-history}}</ref> It focused initially on the IBM terminal emulation market, and became a major technology employer in the Seattle area.<ref name=WRQ.CG>{{cite web |quote=Attachmate, founded by Pritt in 1982, was among the region's largest software developers in the late '90s and early '00s, with revenue of ...
|title=Investors begin merger of Attachmate and WRQ
|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2005/05/30/daily27.html |date=May 30, 2005}}</ref>

===KeaTerm===
KEAsystems' '''KEAterm''' products were PC software packages that emulated some of [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s VT terminals, and facilitated integrating Windows-based PCs with multiple host applications.<ref name=CW93>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Computerworld]]
|quote=KEAterm is an advanced software emulation of Digital Equipment Corp.'s VT terminals, enabling users to integrate multiple host applications into the Windows 
|title=KEA DEC/VTterminal eumulation |date=September 6, 1993  |page=93
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgsZJgu-zDkC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|quote=After consideration, two products were selected for more detailed evaluation, Pathworks VT320/VT382 for Windows and KEAterm VT340. VT320/VT382 are ...
|title=Terminal Emulator Task Force Report - City University of Hong Kong
|url=https://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/netcomp/net2/pc240.htm}}</ref> These included KEAterm [[VT320|VT340]] and [[VT420]] [[terminal emulator]]s, and KEA X [[X terminal]] software).

KEA was acquired by Attachmate.<ref name=KEA.ChadGad>{{cite web
|quote=We have certain macros in our <u>Attachment KeaTerm 4.23</u> (''emphasis added'') install that aren't easily workable in other terminal emulators or at least no one has ...
|title=Need a replacement for SCO TermLite.  |website=ARStechnica.com
|url=https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1112274
|date=June 3, 2010}}</ref>

===DCA IRMA===
[[Image:KL DCA BS0017.jpg|thumb|right|DCA IRMA II ISA network card]]
Another acquisition was [[Digital Communications Associates|Digital Communications Associates (DCA)]], makers of IRMA line of terminal emulators, INFOconnect, Crosstalk communications software, and OpenMind [[collaborative software]]).<ref name=DC.0/> DCA was also known for its [[Irma board|3270 IRMA]]<ref>{{cite book
   |title=Expanding and Networking Microcomputers
   |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1349076252  |isbn=1349076252
   |author1=Dennis Longley  |author2=Michael Shain  |date=1985
   | publisher=Springer |quote=IRMA DECISION SUPPORT INTERFACE ... PC3278/79 EMULATOR/ADAPTOR BOARD}}</ref> hardware product  (used for [[Synchronous Data Link Control|SDLC]]), and ISCA SDLC hardware adapters. They also supported driver downloads.

===Extra!===
The Attachmate '''Extra!''' family of terminal emulator packages was built to include [[IBM 3270|3270]], [[IBM 5250|5250]] and [[DEC VT100|VT100]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moonsoft.net/products/000283.aspx|title=Moonsoft - Products - Attachmate EXTRA! X-treme}}</ref><ref>[[Computer Associates]]' help desk documented a problem with it. {{cite web
   |url=https://support.ca.com/us/download-center/problem-detail.html?productcd=ATMXC%26problemnbr=415%26docid=305874
   |title=HLLAPI Short Names don't appear in Session Configurator}} so did IBM. {{cite web
   |url=https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014917867
   |title=Attachmate EXTRA! X-treme automation using RFT
   |website=[[IBM]]
 |date=December 9, 2012}}</ref><ref>By 1988 it was being marketed as "Attachmate Extra!" (source: a pricesheet that includes various software options and four hardware products)</ref>

== Acquisition ==
After buying both WRQ, Inc. and Attachmate, who had been long-time competitors in the host emulation business, a group of private equity firms announced in 2005 that the companies would be merged under the new ownership.<ref name=WRQ.CG/> It was announced that Attachmate founder and CEO Frank Pritt would retire at the same time.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Attachmate, Apache, Cisco, NEC, SAP, Software AG, Adobe Systems, Fujitsu, Oracle, CA Technologies and BonitaSoft,  are some of the key players operating in the Global Application Server Market.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Global Application Server Software Platform Market 2025 Top Manufacturers|url=https://coleofduty.com/technology/2020/04/27/global-application-server-software-platform-market-2025-top-manufacturers-ibm-microsoft-apache-cisco-redhat-sap/|date=27 April 2020|website=Cole of Duty|access-date=8 May 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links == 	
* [http://www.microfocus.com/attachmate/ Micro Focus Attachmate page]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19970419174451/http://supportweb.attachmate.com/file/filelibrary.htm Attachmate File Library], [[Archive.org]]

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