Mustang Software, Inc. was a California-based corporation that developed telecommunications software products. Mustang was incorporated in 1988, became a public corporation (NASDAQ ticker symbol MSTG) in 1995, and was finally merged into Quintus Corporation in 2000. Mustang's first software products were sold using the shareware model. As the company grew, the products were soon migrated to shrinkware. During the rise of the Internet and electronic software distribution, Mustang stopped distributing physical products and instead sold licenses to its software. Major Products Wildcat! BBS For most of its lifetime, Mustang's flagship product was Wildcat! BBS. Wildcat! was a bulletin board system that computer users could dial into using a modem, and communicate with other users online. Initially, only one user could be dialed into the system at one time, but technological advances later allowed more than one user to be online simultaneously and to interact with one another. The first versions of Wildcat! ran on the DOS platform. In the mid-1990s, Mustang developed a new version called WINServer that ran on 32-bit Windows platforms. Wildcat! was sold to Santronics Software, Inc. in 1998 as Mustang wanted to concentrate on its new software products. Qmodem Pro Mustang bought Qmodem from The Forbin Project in 1992 and renamed it to Qmodem Pro. Qmodem Pro was a DOS-based communications program, intended for use by computer users to dial into BBS systems. Mustang developed versions of Qmodem Pro for 16-bit and 32-bit version of Windows. Support for RIP was added in 1993. Qmodem Pro continued to be sold by Mustang through 2000, and the rights to it were purchased by Quintus. Its status is now abandonware. Internet Message Center Mustang developed Mustang Software in 1997 in response to the drop in the bulletin board system market due to the rise of the Internet. Internet Message Center, or IMC as it was known, was designed to handle incoming corporate email. The email was filtered, sorted, tracked, and distributed to agents (people who would respond to the email). Agent responses would be routed back through IMC so a complete history of email conversations with a customer could be recorded. IMC also provided reporting features to analyze email performance. The rights to IMC were purchased by Quintus in 2000. Its status is now abandonware. History September 1986: Jim Harrer starts Mustang Software in the bedroom of his Bakersfield, California home. March 1987: The first version of the company's