History

In the mid 1980's, Softworks, Inc., a privately held company in Clinton, Maryland, developed the world's first ICF catalog back-up and recovery tool, known as "the Mechanic". The product was later augmented by two additional modules and renamed "Catalog Solution®" in the 1990's. It went on to become the industry standard for catalog management with several thousand licenses sold. In 2000, Softworks was acquired by EMC Corporation® for $192 million and the redundant employees, including all of the original Catalog Solution developers, subsequently formed DINO-Software.

The new development teams comprising specialists from both the Performance and Storage groups, set about designing and coding a new catalog management product that eliminated the limitations of the old technology to produce the fastest, most comprehensive catalog management product available. "T-REX" rapidly went on to sell more copies in less time, than any other catalog management product ever released. T-REX remains a substantial leap forward in ICF catalog technology, containing the functionality of at least 6 stand-alone (separately priced) products in the market.

DINO followed this early success with a host of new, innovative products in the areas of performance tuning, storage optimization, data and communications security. This formula of superior product at reasonable cost, backed up by first class support from industry experts, has allowed DINO to enjoy unprecedented growth and rapidly establish DINO technology as the gold standard.