He appointed Lee Scheffler as the architect and conceived the product brand name "Stage" to signify modularity and component-orientation.
Lee Scheffler presented the DataStage product overview to the board of VMark in June 1996 and it was approved for development.
acquired privately held Torrent Systems Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts for $46 million in cash.
Ascential announced a commitment to integrate Orchestrate's parallel processing capabilities directly into the DataStageXE platform.
It uses a client/server design where jobs are created and administered via a Windows client against central repository on a server.