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Former CA Boss Gets 12 Years, $8M Fine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the off-to-the-big-house dept.

mwnyc writes "The BBC is reporting on the sentence issued today to former CA boss Sanjay Kumar, who had pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy and securities fraud. Mr. Kumar is expected to begin serving time in February 2007. Under federal sentencing guidelines, Kumar could have faced life in prison but the judge called that punishment 'unreasonable.'"

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  1. Heh, I knew it! by itwerx · · Score: 3, Informative

    Having run into CA's products off and on over the years I've always wondered how the hell they stayed in business...

    1. Re:Heh, I knew it! by LVWolfman · · Score: 2, Informative
      Having run into CA's products off and on over the years I've always wondered how the hell they stayed in business...


      I've only used one CA product that I know of, CA Realizer. Realizer was a BASIC IDE/Compiler for Win16 and OS/2 that in my opinion blew the doors off of MS Visual Basic for Windows.

      Part of this was probably due to the fact that I'm an old school BASIC programmer (TRS-80 Model I Level II, Commodore 64/128, AmigaBASIC, GWBasic, QuickBasic, MS Professional Development System 7, etc.) About the time that Realizer hit the market, VisualBASIC offered a programming paradigm where you designed the interface first, then stuck in little bits of code after the fact. This approach was totally foreign and counter intuitive to me. It made it especially hard to review code.

      CA Realizer on the other hand, offered you a blank editor for programming. Oh, you want to design the GUI portion? Run the window editor, design to your heart's content and when you save it, Realizer inserted the BASIC programming code for the window and widgets into your code. So now a window was just another function.

      Realizer ran quicker and provided smaller executables than Visual Basic plus it worked cross-platform. However, Microsoft marketing and lack of a desire on CA's part to move Realizer into the 32 bit world killed it. So I pretty much had to switch to Visual Basic at least until Version 6 came out.

      Today, I use REALBasic... the IDE offers me blank code codes or the GUI design screens, is much more object oriented than Visual BASIC and is cross-platform (Win32, Apple OS9, Apple OS X (Universal Binary, PowerPC, Intel), Win98 and later and Linux) all from the same source code. The only real downside to it is that it doesn't have an optimizing compiler and includes all the normal runtimes in the executable. So a "Hello World" console application is 364K while a single window with static text displaying "Hello World" is 3.7M.

      I hope that Real Software doesn't go the way of Computer Associates.
  2. Re:Anyone feel like posting a link to the backstor by moatra · · Score: 2, Informative

    When in doubt, head to Wikipedia

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    Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors.
  3. CA = Computer Associates by subreality · · Score: 3, Informative

    CA = Computer Associates for those who are WTFing.

  4. Re:"CA"? Show some goddamn courtesy by jjp5421 · · Score: 2, Informative

    CA is the name of this software company. It was known as Computer Associates, Intl. about a year ago.