Proginet

Proginet was founded 1986 by Joseph T. Mohen and is headquartered in Garden City, New York. It has offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In the late 1980s, it developed a breakthrough product called XCOM which allowed companies to manage the process of moving bulk data between 26 different computer operating systems.

Thomas Charles Bauer joined the company at its inception and was the chief developer of the XCOM file transfer software. He also served as the company's Software Development Manager and Chief Technology Officer.[2]

In the early 1990s, the company's rights in XCOM were sold to its distributor, which was itself later acquired by CA-Inc. XCOM went on to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in sales for CA-Inc.

After the sale of its only product, the company secured equity stakes from Microsoft and Novell, and began the development of enterprise managed file transfer products across many major computing platforms including Windows, UNIX, Linux, IBM i and the mainframe.

On June 22, 2010 the company announced that it was to be acquired by TIBCO Corporation for $23 million.[3]

Proginet's products include CyberFusion Integration Suite, Slingshot, Edge Server, Harbor NSM and HFT, and the Rocketstream software suite.

1986 - Company Founded (as Teleprocessing Connection Inc.)

1987 - Developed and introduced XCOM

1991 - Sold XCOM to Spectrum Concepts (itself later acquired by Computer Associates)

1991 - Changed company name to "Proginet Corporation"

1994 - Novell takes Equity Stake in Proginet, company acquires IND$File Plus and Network Navigator from Novell

1995 - Developed and introduced Fusion FTMS

1995 - Completed IPO

1996 - Acquired KnowledgeNet

1996 - Microsoft takes equity Stake in Proginet[4]

1996 - Acquired TransAccess from Microsoft

1996 - Kevin M. Kelly becomes CEO[5]

1997 - Developed and introduced CyberFusion

2000 - Acquired TCS and the Tempus suite of products from Surefire

2002 - Developed and introduced SIFT (Secure Internet File Transfer)

2004 - Acquired Blockade Systems Corporation and their products: ESAccess (now SecurAccess) and ManagedID (now SecurForce)

2005 - Developed and introduced CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI)

2006 - Partnered with SoftCare EC Solutions Inc. to embed SoftCare's TradeLink EDI Management software in CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI) as CFI Commerce Server

2008 - Partnered with Rocketstream to embed Rocketstream's file transfer acceleration technology in CyberFusion Integration Suite [6]

2008 - Sandy Weil becomes president and CEO [7]

2008 - Announced Edge Server, a Secure Gateway Appliance to facilitate secure file transfer with external parties

2008 - Announced,[8] a hardware-based appliance for e-mail attachment management with full archiving capabilities

2008 - Entered into an expanded partnership agreement with Beta Systems Software AG. This included an asset swap of Proginet's line of security products (i.e. SecurPass, SecurPass, and SecurAccess) for Harbor's file transfer software (i.e. Harbor File Transfer and Network Storage Manager).

2009 - Entered into an OEM transaction with Attachmate, Innovis, and Software AG

2009 - Acquired intellectual property of RocketStream Inc.[9]

2010 - Acquired by Tibco for $23MM [10] [11]