InterCon Systems Corporation

InterCon Systems Corporation (a Virginia Corporation) was founded in April 1988 by Kurt D. Baumann and Mikki Barry to produce software to connect Macintosh computers in environments that were not Macintosh-exclusive. At the time, there was no real concept of the Internet and there was still a question of whether the TCP/IP protocols or OSI protocols would be adopted widely. Over the next 9 years, the company grew from three employees to over 100 and sold software in the US, Europe and Japan.

In June 1995, InterCon was acquired by PSINet and continued to sell and maintain its suite of TCP/IP software.[1]

In February 1996, PSINet merged InterCon with Software Ventures (another Macintosh communication software company).[2]

In February 1997, InterCon's engineering group and its products were sold to Ascend Communications.[3]

  1. ^ "PSINet to acquire InterCon Systems and Software Ventures". PRNewswire. 6 June 1995. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  2. ^ "InterCon Systems and Software Ventures to Merge Operations". Business Wire. Feb 13, 1996.
  3. ^ Mallett, Daryl F. "Ascend Communications". Answers.com. Retrieved 20 November 2013.