ASNA Splits from BluePhoenix
January 12, 2011 Dan Burger
Sometimes breaking up is not all that hard to do. When ASNA and BluePhoenix tied the knot in August 2007, no one would have bet that in less than three and a half years later the two companies would go their separate ways. ASNA, for 28 years a vendor in the IBM midrange, announced last week it was leaving BluePhoenix, a company focused on the mainframe business. Anne Ferguson, president of ASNA, called the move “a management buyout.” The “new” ASNA emerges from the BluePhoenix years somewhat changed from the San Antonio, Texas-based company that was looking to build the |