Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Tuesday, May 13, 2008 FiveRuns Upgrades Software Austin-based FiveRuns, a developer of software for monitoring Ruby on Rails applications, said today that it has rolled out a public beta of its FiveRuns Manage 2.0 software. According to the firm, the new software has added ability to aggregate metrics across server clusters; added new monitoring for PostgresSQL and other database and OS applications; triggers and event notification; graphs, and other features. FiveRuns is venture backed by Austin Ventures. posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008(Full story) CREDANT Names Callahan VP, CMO Dallas-based data protection software publisher CREDANT Technologies reported Tuesday that it has hired Michael Callahan as vice president and chief marketing officer. CREDANT said Callahan boasts more than 18 years of enterprise sales and marketing experience. Most recently, he was president and chief operating officer of NoodleNet, a Plano, Texas-based startup that focused on establishing safe online environments for children. Before that, Callahan held key marketing and customer service roles (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008(Full story) nGenera Teams With Talent Software Firm Austin-based nGenera (formerly BSG Alliance) said today that it has partnered with Cornerstone OnDemand, a provider of software-as-a-service for workforce management. According to the firms, nGenera will integrate Cornerstone OnDemand's applications into its nGen Talent offering, and Cornerstone OnDemand will integrate nGen Collaboration into its own products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. nGenera's nGen Talent software-as-a-service is used for recruiting, workforce planning, e (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008(Full story) EDS Acquired By HP In $13.9B Deal Palo Alto, California-based computer firm HP said this morning that it has agreed to pay $13.9 billion in cash for Plano-based IT outsourcing provider EDS. HP said it would pay $25.00 per share in cash for EDS, in a deal which would double the firm's services businesses from $16.6 billion in revenues to more than $38B and 210,000 employees. According to HP, the firm will create a new branded unit called EDS - an HP company, which will continue to be based out of the EDS offices in Plano. The dea (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008(Full story) |
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