I believe Meridian only marketed (and sublicensed) LAT from DEC, with DEC being its owner. DEC did most of its internal LAT code development, and Meridian did most of the 'external' versions, e.g. the stuff in PC-LAT, Cisco IOS's LAT code, and probably most others, given the cost of licensing it... twas cheaper to let them do it than to get your own license and do it... :)