Executives of Legent Corp’s Information Technology Division have bought the unit off Legent’s new parent, Computer Associates International Inc, and it will trade as Pathlore Software Corp. The Columbus, Ohio-based Unix and mainframe help tools and training operation will sell Preference and Explain suites of on-line help tools and Phoenix productivity and computer-based training software. In January, Pathlore will release a long-awaited Windows version of the mainframe-based Phoenix training product it gained with the acquisition of Columbus, Ohio-based Goal Systems International Inc in August 1992. Phoenix for Windows will provide a mixed graphical and scripting environment for building interactive tutorials and have audiovisual multimedia elements. It will run on AIX, HP-UX, OS/2 and Windows NT servers, with NT, Windows 3.1 and OS/2 clients. Pricing has not yet been determined. Pathlore is also cooking up a development wizard tool code-named Northwoods, for some time in 1996. Pathlore will increase its staffing to 70 from 50 in three months.
