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I'm trying to get a unbiased view of stream. It seems like that last section gets a little out of hand Beajedi (talk) 09:08, 25 June 2010 (UTC) beajedi
The article might mention the origin of Stream, from which Stream Global Services emerged. See http://www.thefreelibrary.com/R.R.+DONNELLEY+BUSINESS+UNIT+MERGES+WITH+CORPORATE+SOFTWARE+INC.+TO...-a016927990. Stream was founded in April 1995 by the merger of Corporate Software Inc. (aka CSI), and R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.'s business unit called Global Software Services (aka GSS). CSI was at the time the world's largest reseller and supporter of software, and RRD's GSS was the world's largest manufacturer of software, doing software manufacturing and distribution for Microsoft, Novell, Sun, Intuit, Apple, and any number of other companies. Stream was thus, from the moment of its creation, a vertical integration of the largest software manufacturer, reseller, and supporter in the world with annual sales in excess of $1 billion. (Software manufacturing should not be confused with software publishing; manufacturers replicate and distribute software for publishers.) R.R Donnelley & Sons, was not surprisingly founded by R.R. Donnelley in 1864, then as a printing company (http://www.rrdonnelley.com); CSI was founded in 1983 by Mort Rosenthal (InfoWorld, Jan 9 1989, page 28), and was later effectively run by COO Steve Moore while Rosenthal was chairman and CEO. The purchase of CSI and RRD's GSS and the formation of Stream was largely funded by Bain Capital. The merger was not a happy one, and the company split into several pieces in the spring of 1997. Stream Global Services is the successor of one of those pieces; the others have gone off in other directions (such as Modus Media) and have suffered as the business environment for the manufacture and distribution of software has changed. 64.71.8.50 (talk) 23:59, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Suggest we update the informationa bout the Trillium proposal and note that it was turned down by 80%+ of the shareholders. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.235.241.102 (talk) 23:58, 26 September 2011 (UTC)