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==Patriot Partners==

Metaphor and IBM created a venture called Patriot Partners in 1990. The attempt was to create an organization that could produce a solid business line of object-oriented software.<ref>{{cite news|title='established giants seeking relief create industry implosion'

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1AEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA49&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate= 28 February 2012|newspaper=InfoWorld News|date=22 July 1991}}</ref> Rather than capitalize the venture, IBM purchased the Metaphor software division in 1991 and operated it as a wholly owned, independent subsidiary, and the hardware and field repair division was spun ofoff into its own company, Sequence Support Services. In May 1992, Sequence Support Services ceased operations. In October 1994, Metaphor ceased operations.

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