Harbinger Corporation was a leader in

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software and network services. Founded in December 1983 by C. Tycho Howle and David Leach as Computer Technologies for the Home in

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, Georgia, it went public in August 1995. It was purchased by

Peregrine Systems Peregrine Systems, Inc. was an enterprise software company, founded in 1981, that sold enterprise asset management, change management, and ITIL-based IT service management software. Following an accounting scandal and bankruptcy in 2003, Peregrin ...

on 16 June 2000. Originally located at 1800 Century Place, the company relocated to 1055 Lenox Park Blvd. in the early 1990s. At its peak, Harbinger had 1,100 employees, 40,000 active customers, and annual revenues exceeding $155 million. After Peregrine went into bankruptcy following 2002 accounting scandals, certain lines of business purchased from Harbinger and Extricity were sold off to Golden Gate Capital and

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and ultimately renamed Inovis. For a while, Inovis' European operations used the name Harbinger Commerce. The Harbinger brand became part of Inovis in 2002, which was then acquired by

GXS GXS (OpenText GXS) is a subsidiary of OpenText Corporation headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. Its GXS Trading Grid managed more than twelve billion transactions in 2011. Since 2004, GXS has invested more than $250 million i ...

in 2010.

References

External links

A list of alumni who the Harbinger Alumni Group would like to locate

Inovis web site

Inovis blog
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