Transarc Corporation was a private

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-based software company founded in 1989 by Jeffrey Eppinger,

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, and Dean Thompson of

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. Transarc commercialized the

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(AFS), now OpenAFS, which was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon. As a member of the Open Software Foundation (later

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), Transarc developed the

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distributed filesystem component of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) that was sold by Open Group members. Other products included the distributed

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system Encina (a basis for IBM's UNIX-based CICS products; included in IBM's TXSeries and later WebSphere), and the Solaris binary distribution of the DCE. Transarc was purchased by IBM in 1994 and became the IBM Transarc Lab in 1999 and then the IBM Pittsburgh Lab in 2001. The lab was closed in 2002.

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Transarc Corporate Overview
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