Soliton Incorporated
Encyclopedia
Soliton Incorporated was a company formed in 1993 to continue the support and development of Sharp APL, originally developed by I. P. Sharp Associates
, and other related products and services.
. The business was in some ways a continuation of I. P. Sharp Associates
, which was purchased by Reuters
in 1987. Reuters
was primarily interested in Sharp's historical databases, and allowed some portions of the business to buy themselves out from Reuters. The company started with Clarke Bruce as its president.
I. P. Sharp Associates
I. P. Sharp Associates, IPSA for short, was a major Canadian computer time sharing, consulting and services firm of the 1970s and 80s. IPSA is particularly well known for its work on the APL programming language, an early packet switching computer network known as IPSANET, and a powerful...
, and other related products and services.
History
Soliton Incorporated was formed in 1993 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with some of the former employees of I. P. Sharp AssociatesI. P. Sharp Associates
I. P. Sharp Associates, IPSA for short, was a major Canadian computer time sharing, consulting and services firm of the 1970s and 80s. IPSA is particularly well known for its work on the APL programming language, an early packet switching computer network known as IPSANET, and a powerful...
. The business was in some ways a continuation of I. P. Sharp Associates
I. P. Sharp Associates
I. P. Sharp Associates, IPSA for short, was a major Canadian computer time sharing, consulting and services firm of the 1970s and 80s. IPSA is particularly well known for its work on the APL programming language, an early packet switching computer network known as IPSANET, and a powerful...
, which was purchased by Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
in 1987. Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
was primarily interested in Sharp's historical databases, and allowed some portions of the business to buy themselves out from Reuters. The company started with Clarke Bruce as its president.
Timeline
- 1987 - I. P. Sharp Associates is bought by Reuters
- 1993 - Soliton Incorporated is founded
- 1997 - Soliton develops TimeSquare, a timeseries database with an SQL-like syntax