History
Vinzant, Inc. was started in 1987 by Dave Vinzant. Initially, it developed add-on programs to a property management software package called SKYLINE, which Vinzant had been involved in developing.
As client–server computing was first getting started in 1988, Vinzant, Inc. worked with Microsoft and Novell. Vinzant developed SQLFile, the first shipping front end for the Ashton-Tate/Microsoft SQL Server in 1989. SQLFile was expanded to include support for DOS, OS/2 and Windows. It was a flexible development tool that created screens and reports that accessed data stored in Microsoft SQL Server, NetWare SQL and Oracle Server.
In 1990, Novell announced the NetWare Loadable Module(NLM) version of NetWare SQL and the SQLFile System for DOS was shipped to thousands of users worldwide as part of Novell's 'Client Server Starter Kit'. Due to their experience with Oracle and Netware, Vinzant, Inc. was selected by Oracle to develop the installation program for the Oracle Server for Netware. Other SQL-based products developed by Vinzant, Inc. include the SQL BASIC Library which allowed compiled BASIC to be used with Microsoft SQL Server and the SQL Server Connectivity Pack which allowed SQL Server to be run on Novell networks.
Due to its involvement with companies that were beginning to downsize their operations to PC's, Vinzant, Inc. recognized the need for a mission-critical job scheduling product. With their development of the Event Control Server (ECS) in the early 1990s, Vinzant shifted its focus to the emerging job scheduling and batch processing market. At that time a variety of simple PC utility products were on the market, but the 'downsizers' were looking for a product that could manage mission-critical applications. ECS was developed to provide solutions to some of the problems with other products, such as providing a central point of control for a network of DOS, OS/2, and Windows-based PC's.
In 1999, ECS was re-designed to provide support for Unix and Linux systems. The result was the Global Event Control Server (Global ECS or GECS)due to its IP-based architecture and ability to control computers and processes worldwide.
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