I met Wang in Melbourne in 1989. He hosted a business lunch I attended. He told a few tall stories, embellishing his past. He made it appear that he wrote the CA-SORT product that their fledgling company made their first profits from.
Turns out that this software was acquired from a Swiss company. Not unlike Bill Gates getting the deal for MS-DOS when Gary Kildall probably had a better product. He was a smart businessman. Ethical? Who really knows. A couple of guys who followed him paid the price, Sanjay Kumar and our own Steven Richards who did some significant jail time. I like what CA produce in the mainframe space, hope they continue and do it the right way. On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 1:46 PM Bill Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > Accounting fraud. > https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/technology/14compute.html > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018, 4:23 PM, Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Born in Shanghai, China, he moved to the United States with his family > at the age of 8. Wang later founded CA Technologies and led several Long > Island-based philanthropic efforts. > > > https://www.newsday.com/long-island/computer-associates-charles-wang-1.22209693 > > I met him when he and Russ Artzt ran a small company called Standard > Data out of a grubby midtown Manhattan office. I sure wouldn't have > guessed what he'd accomplish in CA. Along with philanthropies mentioned, > he donated generously to Brooklyn technical High School, which I > attended a few yeas after him. In the minimal dealings I had with him -- > very early, and then briefly in mid-1990s -- he was very pleasant. > > -- > Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] > 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
