Convergent Solutions Inc, on its way to Unisys Corp with its parent, Convergent Inc, has won a $9.9m contract from the US Army for an Army-wide licence to the cs/ADS Application Development System for use under the BTOS and CTOS operating systems (notice that Convergent, already thinking like a Unisys company, puts the Burroughs BTOS derivation before its own original CTOS!): the contract runs to 1993 and the Army seems to be extremely happy with the product, saying that its Stammis software was developed in a fraction of the time it would have taken using traditional computer languages, and that cs/ADS was originally enlisted when the Army tried to develop a personnel system using Cobol and fell behind schedule – and with that kind of endorsement from the top brass, it is not surprising that Convergent Solutions is hard at work on implementations of the product for the Unix, OS/2 and MS-DOS environments.
