This article is about Locus Computing Corporation. For other uses, see Locus.
Locus Computing Corporation
Company type
Private
Industry
Software
Founded
1982 (1982)
Founders
Gerald J. Popek, Charles S. Kline and Gregory I. Thiel
Defunct
August 17, 1995 (1995-08-17)
Fate
Acquired by Platinum Technology Inc.
Successor
Platinum Technology
Headquarters
Santa Monica, California, later Inglewood, California
,
United States
Key people
Gerald J. Popek, CTO and chairman.
Products
LOCUS AIX PS/2, AIX 370 AIX TCF OSF/1 AD Merge UnixWare NonStop Clusters
Number of employees
300
Locus Computing Corporation was formed in 1982 by Gerald J. Popek, Charles S. Kline and Gregory I. Thiel[1]
to commercialize the technologies developed for the LOCUS distributed operating system at UCLA. Locus was notable for commercializing single-system image software and producing the Merge package which allowed the use of DOS and Windows 3.1 software on Unix systems.
Locus was acquired by Platinum Technology Inc in 1995.[2]
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"PLATINUM technology And Locus Computing Finalize Acquisition; Locus Computing officially becomes a PLATINUM technology subsidiary". Business Wire. 1995-08-17. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
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