Talk:Cincom Systems

Controversy
Cincom has spent the last few years ramping up their legal department, resulting in multiple lawsuits and expensive settlements for their current customers and partners. While I understand that the parties themselves are not a good sources of information for a Wiki article, it would certainly be great if someone impartial had the insight to write a "controversy" section of this description. Cincoms current legal tactics are extremely (!) aggressive and they have a lot of unhappy partners and customers as a result. Surely this is relevant information, if it can be written in a sufficiently impartial manner.2.106.249.50 (talk) 18:48, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Advertising
This article is ghastly. It reads from beginning to end as it if was written by the marketing department. One specimen: "Cincom launches its award-winning e-magazine Expert Access". Yuk. Mhkay (talk) 20:45, 5 June 2013 (UTC)


 * OK, it may look Yuk, and I replaced CINCOM quotes with non-Cincom sources. But please do understand, that with "over $100 million" per year, for 21 years, they can afford to buy software companies that "do" SMALL-TALK, C-Compilers, statistical packages, and anything that the Microsofties don't buy. So what's a few million extra to have lawyers watch their back. When they were busy copying IBM by getting universities to teach a database course by offering a free copy of their TOTAL software, IBM's only major competition in this type of sugar-coated marketing were offering free or low-cost HARDWARE - software was ignored, and hence - what's a $100 Million per year got to do with it.  No need to ADVERT-HatNote the article, just find better wordings and/or sources. Even if they slightly exaggerate, being first has advantages, and they were FIRST more than just once or twice. Pi314m (talk) 06:03, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

MANTIS
In the late 1980s MANTIS was a 4th generation programming language for IBM mainframe computers with CICS and VSAM.Georgopa (talk) 03:20, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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A better handle
While more work could certainly make this a better article, the situation I encountered made it seem like the TOTAL people of the 1970s were too much larger than life ("PEACOCK" HatNote). A bit of Googling for the products that I left, after doing some trimming back, showed that Cincom, while neither a Microsoft nor an IBM, had much about which to brag. IBM, in fact did some of this for them- decades after Cincom's founder left IBM. The cited Smithsonian interview, http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/nies.htm, is worth reading. Pi314m (talk) 06:15, 27 August 2018 (UTC)