aspfibf@cid.aes.doe.CA (Iain Findleton) (05/08/90)
Request for Information
CDC Cyber 180 Applications Software
I am engaged in some research relating to the pricing,
availability, characteristics and use of some CDC supplied software
for CDC Cyber 180/810/830 machines and would appreciate replies from
any past or current users of these packages. I believe that these
packages were originally supplied under CYBERNET service offerings
while that system was in use. Software use licences were possible
later sold to individual sites. If anybody has ever used or acquired
for use at their site any of these packages, I would appreciate a
reply that indicates, where possible, the package in question, the
price paid either for a site lease, or for use on a service bureau,
and a brief description of the package in terms of its basic
functionality, its usual application, and how it compares to newer
non-CDC products, such as PC based software, or to similar products
that run on other manufacturers equipment.
The list of the software products of interest is as follows...
FIPAC - Financial Planning and Control
PMCS - Project Management
STRESS - Structural Engineering System Solver
COMPAID - Project Control System
STATS - Market Research Statistical Analysis
FINE - Interactive Financial Calculations
For sites that have implemented any of this software locally, I
would appreciate a description of the scale of the user community
supported, in terms of the number of active users and some statement
of the overall quantity of data used.
Please reply via email to the address listed below.
Thanks to all respondants,
Iain B. Findleton
514-421-4701
aspfibf@cid.aes.doe.ca