Proginet was founded 1986 by
Joseph T. Mohen and is headquartered in
Garden City, New York. It has offices in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In the late 1980s, it developed a product called
XCOM which was intended to allow companies to manage the process of moving bulk data between 26 different computer operating systems. Thomas Charles Bauer joined the company at its founding and was the chief developer of the XCOM file transfer software. He also served as the company's Software Development Manager and Chief Technology Officer. In the early 1990s, the company's rights in XCOM were sold to its distributor, which was itself later acquired by
CA-Inc. XCOM went on to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in sales for CA-Inc. After the sale of its only product, the company secured equity stakes from Microsoft and Novell, and began the development of enterprise managed file transfer products across many major computing platforms including
Windows,
UNIX,
Linux,
IBM i and the
mainframe. On June 22, 2010 the company announced that it was to be acquired by TIBCO Corporation for $23 million. ==References==