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The Informatics brand name may have lasted longest in connection with one of its aforementioned legal software entities, the Professional Software Systems Division. Sterling Software renamed it as the Informatics Legal Systems division, then sold it in 1986 to Baron Data Systems,<ref name="lat-lsd"/> a company that made legal and medical systems.<ref name="nw-briefs"/> Advertisements from that entity stressed "Informatics" far more than "Baron Data".<ref name="aba-no1"/> In 1987 Baron Data was acquired by [[Convergent Technologies]], a computer maker;<ref name="nw-briefs">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cxwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9 | title=Briefs | magazine=Network World | date=March 9, 1987 | page=9}}</ref> Informatics Legal Systems remained as the name of the subsidiary under Convergent.<ref name="nyt-wang"/> But the legal software still ran on Wang systems and thus was not a match with the parent, so in 1988 the Phoenix operation was acquired by [[Wang Laboratories]] itself.<ref name="nyt-wang">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/02/business/company-news-wang-to-acquire-convergent-unit.html | title=Wang to Acquire Convergent Unit | newspaper=The New York Times | date=February 2, 1988 }}</ref> There it became known as the Wang Informatics Legal & Professional Systems, Inc. wholly owned subsidiary and was still based in Phoenix.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cR0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36 | title=LAN file mgmt. pack gets upgrade | first=Tom | last=Smith | magazine=Network World | date=June 4, 1990 | page=36}}</ref> Wang Informatics was still active in 1992<ref name="wang-1992">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=64DHhtObEY0C&pg=PA76 | title=1992 ABA Annual Meeting Exhibitors List | magazine=ABA Journal | date=August 1992 | page=10A}}</ref> when Wang Laboratories itself went into bankruptcy.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-19-fi-5728-story.html | title=Troubled Wang Decides to File for Chapter 11 | agency=Associated Press | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | date=August 19, 1992}}</ref>
In 2000, Sterling Software was sold to [[Computer Associates]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB950538698506309305 | title= Computer Associates Sets Deal To Acquire Sterling Software | author-first= William M. | author-last=Bulkeley | newspaper=The Wall Street Journal | date=February 15, 2000}}</ref> That same year, Sterling Commerce was sold to [[SBC Communications]]; it later became part of IBM.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-buys-sterling-commerce-for-us1-4-billion/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129003335/https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-buys-sterling-commerce-for-us1-4-billion/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 29, 2020 | title=IBM buys Sterling Commerce for US$1.4 billion | author-first=Larry | author-last=Dignan | publisher=ZDNet | date=May 25, 2010 }}</ref>
Relations between Bauer and Frank did not remain completely sundered, and in 1999 Frank attended, along with Wagner, Postley, and three other early executives, a private "Informatics Retrospective" hosted by Bauer, where they could, in Bauer's words, "discuss what happened, good and bad."<ref>Frank, "Achieving the American Dream", p. 97n.</ref>
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