Dun & Bradstreet Software Services, often shortened to D&B Software, was formed by the merger of the Management Science America and McCormack & Dodge companies in June 1990, under the ownership of the

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corporation. In 1982, ''McCormack & Dodge'' was described by ''The New York Times'' as "one of the nation's top three financial software concerns."

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After the merger, the separate company headquarters, located in

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and

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, were retained with

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used for communication. Originally, the merged company was a supplier of financial packages that ran on

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s. In 1991, they released the client-server

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application suite named SmartStream that ran on

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. ''Smartstream'' 3.0 was introduced in early 1995.

Geac

In 1996, D&B Software was acquired for US$150 million by the Canadian client-server application firm Geac Computer Corporation, who immediately split the services into two divisions.

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Geac

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