Short History of the Clementine Data-Mining System

The Clementine data-mining system, implemented by ISL on Poplog,
mainly using Pop-11 and its X Window graphical interface, achieved
very wide sales and usage during the 1990s.

Most users insisted on a version for PC+Windows rather than the
Unix/Solaris/VMS versions, so ISL Ported Unix Poplog to MSWindows
with the Unix graphical facilities provided by an additional
commercial product, NutCracker (now called MKS-Toolkit).

The V15.53 poplog package for windows available in

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/winpop/pop15-53/

includes all the sources and I believe also the "stubs" that were
used in Clementine to link to NutCracker facilities.

Because Clementine was so successful, ISL was bought by data-mining
company SPSS (http://www.spss.com/) in 1998 in order to obtain
Clementine and the staff who were expert at developing,
maintaining, and supporting it.

However, in order to ensure maximum compatibility with their other
products SPSS spent several years porting Clementine to C++ and
Java (though apparently with some loss of functionality provided by
the use of an AI language in the original version).

Clementine has recently been named the PASW Modeler (Predictive
Analytics SoftWare) by SPSS

    http://www.spss.com/software/modeling/modeler/

News report on takeover
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Jan_4/ai_53497665/
    SPSS Acquires Integral Solutions Ltd
    Business Wire, Jan 4, 1999

Aaron Sloman
28 Jun 2009