Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Monday, February 1, 2010 Austin Dangles Incentives To Internet Firm The City of Austin is hoping to attract as many as 600 new jobs to Austin by luring Internet legal documents firm LegalZoom.com to the city. According to a request for comments from Austin, it has authorized its City Manager to provide $20,000 a year for ten years to LegalZoom.com to establish a regional headquarters in the city. LegalZoom.com is also receiving $1M from the Texas Enterprise Fund to encourage the move. The payments are tied to both the number of jobs created by the (More info...) posted on Monday, February 1, 2010(Full story) CompassLearning Acquired By Private Equity Firm Austin-based educational software firm CompassLearning has been acquired by Marlin Equity Partners, a private equity firm, the companies said today. The firms said that Marlin acquired CompassLearning from the Reader's Digest Association on January 26th. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. CompassLearning said the move will help the firm by freeing it from the constraints imposed by operating as a subsidiary of a large corporate parent. posted on Monday, February 1, 2010(Full story) 2X Enhances Desktop Virtualization Management 2X Software, a developer virtual desktop and application management software which maintains it U.S. headquarters in Addison, said this morning that it has released a new version of the firm's tools. The firm said that it has released Version 8 of its 2X ApplicationServier and 2X VirtualDesktopServer tools. The software products are used for managing virtual applications and virtual desktops running on Windows, Mac, and Linux, working with Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX, Parallels Containe (More info...) posted on Monday, February 1, 2010(Full story) The Planet Cuts Hosting Prices Houston-based IT hosting firm The Planet said this morning that its focusing on becoming the "best value" in the hosting industry and is making "sweeping" price reductions to its services. The firm said it has reduced prices on new service orders from 7 to 30 percent, and decreased RAM and hard drive prices by 50 percent. The firm said the pricing changes are permanent, and include both its domestic and international services, CDN, bandwidth, and hard drive and RAM upgrades. posted on Monday, February 1, 2010(Full story) BMC Trumpets Customer Savings Houston-based BMC Software said today that Pacific Life Insurance Company, a major provider of life insurance in North America, implemented the firm's BMC Remedy IT Service Management product in a project, saving the insurance firm more than $1.1M over the last three years. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. According to BMC, Pacific Life adopted BMC as part of a major IT reorganization. posted on Monday, February 1, 2010(Full story) |
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