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XCOM, is a proprietary file transfer utility owned by CA Technologies. First launched in 1987, it became one of the first heterogeneous systems management software products to be widely deployed in large corporate networks around the world, at peak expanding to more than 13 operating systems. [1] Its installed based grew very rapidly at first because it was one of the first third party products to be based upon the then advanced networking technology from IBM, known as Advanced Program to Program Communition, which allowed faster and more reliable communication between different types of computers.

It has been popular on mainframe and midrange WINTEL and NON-WINTEL computers for many decades and functions on both SNA and TCP/IP networks. XCOM establishes a peer-to-peer connection as opposed to FTP which is client/server relationship. The remote system can initiate the same range of transfer capabilities as local system.

XCOM provides automatic checkpoint/restart/recovery and extensive audit logging. It also provides data encryption, compression, record packing.

History

Spectrum Concepts Inc. of New York City, which was primarily a software consulting firm, originally developed XCOM 6.2 in the late 1970s and sold it as a product on many platforms.[2] In 1992 Spectrum Concepts Inc. merged with Legent Inc. which in turn was bought by Computer Associates in 1995.

Current use

XCOM is popular in industries dominated by mainframes such as banking, insurance and telecommunications, but increasingly more in the distributed environments for large installations, Government Departments and companies that have to meet the current crop of Privay Regulations, across the Globe.

References

  1. ^ http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Legent-Corporation-Company-History.html
  2. ^ "XCOM/SDS - Spectrum Concepts Inc.'s electronic software distribution software", Software Magazine, Nov 15, 1991


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