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Companies that licensed CTOS included [[Groupe Bull|Bull]] (STARSYS), and [[Burroughs Corporation|Burroughs]] (BTOS) and who later merged with Sperry to become [[Unisys]]. Unisys was the single largest customer with whom Convergent Technologies merged to become one company in 1988. At its peak, CTOS had over 800,000 users worldwide. Diskless workstations (e.g., ''Bull'') used the [[Intel 80186]] processor, a processor seldom used by standard PCs.

[[Progress Software open

[[Progress Software Corporation<ref><ref></ref></ref>]] made a commercial database application for CTOS that was in [[4GL]]. The [[United States Coast Guard]] used these databases for logistics administration for their vessels.

There was a port of [[CorelDRAW]] for CTOS running the [[Presentation Manager]].