Industry | Software |
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Founded | By 1984 |
Defunct | 1987 |
Fate | Merged into Symantec |
Headquarters | Novato, California, U.S. |
Products | Project management software |
Brands | Time Line, Timeline |
Breakthrough Software was a software company based in Novato, California. Breakthrough developed and sold the Time Line project management software for PC DOS computers, releasing the first version in 1984, [1] and version 2.0 in July, 1985. [2] Company staff in the 1980s included William Lohse (1984-1985) as president, [3] Victoria Lohse as COO and CEO [4] and Andrew Layman as president starting in 1986. [2]
Negotiations to merge Breakthrough into Integrated Software Systems Corp. (ISSCO) reached an agreement in principle in October, 1986 [4] but broke down soon afterwards when Computer Associates, developer of a different project management program, announced an agreement to acquire ISSCO. [5]
Breakthrough was acquired by Symantec in 1987. Symantec continued to release versions of Timeline until at least version 6.0 in 1994. [6]