CICS is a TP monitor, and there were mini-computer and unix implementations of such systems, including Encina, which IBM bought and became CICS for RISC. I wor

CICS is a TP monitor, and there were mini-computer and unix implementations of such systems, including Encina, which IBM bought and became CICS for RISC. I worked on a TP monitor for VAX/VMS from 1982-1988, which had many of the features of CICS on Mainframes. In 1995, I started a company called WebLogic, and wrote the first Java app server. Many of the features and techniques made their way into the WebLogic app server. The rest is history.