Ardent Datastage

pradkumar · Post by **pradkumar** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:10 pm

Hi,

I have been working on Ibm Websphere Datastage version 8.0.1.

Today i came up with Ardent datastage .I have searched the forum and i came to know that Ardent is a vendor like Ascential.

Can any one discuss about the Ardent datastage tool ( the year which it was in the market, the new features that were not present in Ardent datastage like comparision between ardent and ascential).

Your inputs are highly appreciated.

betterthanever · Post by **betterthanever** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:21 pm

VMARK->ARDENT->ASCENTIAL->IBM

http://etl-tools.info/en/datastage.html

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:11 pm

Vincent has blogged on the history of DataStage over at ITToolbox but for some reason I wasn't able to find the three-part conversation I recall reading over there.

pradkumar · Post by **pradkumar** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:18 pm

Ok ..Thanks for your inputs..

betterthanever · Post by **betterthanever** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:20 pm

http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Da ... on#History

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:24 pm

Interesting, but not what I was thinking of. It was more of a 'Christmas Carol' kind of story - DataStage Past, Present and Future.

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:49 pm

thanks for the thread...always fun to take a walk down memory lane..... ; )

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:09 am

Just google "DataStage Ghost" for my three part interview with the chief architect of DataStage and his take on the history, present and future of DataStage. It was done a couple years ago but talks about how he came up with the product and why DataStage 7 had to become Information Server 8.

datskosaraju · Post by **datskosaraju** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:01 pm

betterthanever wrote:VMARK->ARDENT->ASCENTIAL->IBM

http://etl-tools.info/en/datastage.html

I just think its VMARK->aRDENT->INFORMIX->ASCENTIAL->IBM

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:22 am

...if you want to get really specific, after the two subsidiaries were created out of Informix Corporation [one of which was Informix Software], we (DataStage team) called ourselves (internally) "NewCo" for 3 1/2 months prior to coining "Ascential".

Ernie

Sainath.Srinivasan · Post by **Sainath.Srinivasan** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:50 am

Also several companies joined in the evolution cycle thus giving us more powerful datastage (with Orchestrate) and other products like MetaRecon, Integrity.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:00 pm

Joined? Nah - they were taken over with some of the billion dollars Ascential got for the Informix databases from IBM.

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:56 pm

Joined, Acquired...it's a relative term. ; ) What is important for this forum, I believe, is that new readers know that this "history" was largely driven by the DataStage management team, many of whom are still heavily involved at IBM. So DataStage wasn't just "tossed around" from company to company, but was a key thread going thru each of these changes. Vincent's discussions with Lee help underline that, and that's just from the engineering angle. There has been consistency along many paths, including everyone on this forum from a partner and user community perspective.

Ernie

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