Flander acquires Endevo
Software testing and development company Flander (Finland) has acquired Endevo, the Swedish expert company in Quality Assurance and Software Development. The combined company will become the Nordic leader in Quality Assurance and one of the leading development companies for embedded software systems. Through the acquisition, Flander will have 500 employees in Finland, Sweden and China and a turnover of 30 million euro in 2008. Both Endevo and Flander are high-growth companies. They provide development, quality assurance, testing and validation services that enable industry and telecom customers to shorten product development cycles, save development costs by avoiding errors, and validate products for different markets.
Announcement Date: December 16, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
Redwood Collaborative Media acquires Software Test & Performance business unit from BZ Media
Redwood Collaborative Media, a new integrated B2B media company dedicated to creating highly interactive and dynamic platforms for sharing knowledge, insights, and resources for professional communities, has acquired the Software Test & Performance (ST&P) business unit from BZ Media LLC. ST&P serves the global software testing and performance community, reaching more than 55,000 IT professionals through a suite of products that provide information, education, training, and professional networking opportunities. Redwood Collaborative Media creates highly interactive, integrated, and dynamic platforms for sharing knowledge, insights, and resources, and is dedicated to building deep relationships for professional communities.
Announcement Date: December 16, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
VMware acquires Tungsten Graphics
VMware has acquired a company involved with the development of a very popular series of graphics technology for Linux. The company is called Tungsten Graphics, and they have created: Mesa, an open source implementation of the OpenGL API DRI. The Direct Rendering Infrastructure is a framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware in a safe and efficient manner. It includes enhancements to the X server, to several client libraries, and to the kernel, all open source 3D accelerated drivers for the Linux desktop have been created using DRI technology; Gallium3D, a hardware and API neutral intermediate format that allows the company to efficiently build graphics drivers to support a variety of hardware platforms for modern 3D APIs on various OS environments; and TTM Memory Manager, an advanced video memory manager. VMware hasn't yet reported on the news, however, Tungsten Graphics posted an announcement on their company web. With VMware making a larger push into the client market with its vClient initiative, the acquisition of a graphics expert like Tungsten makes perfect sense. And Tungsten adds that with the addition of their team members, VMware will be able to augment their ability to deliver industry-leading 3D graphics virtualization capabilities -- great news for a VDI market.
Announcement Date: December 15, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
BSQUARE acquires TestQuest
BSQUARE Corporation has acquired assets of privately held TestQuest, provider of test automation and management solutions for mobile and embedded devices and applications. As a result of the acquisition, device developers and network operators building mobile, consumer or embedded devices can rely on the highest quality development expertise from BSQUARE, plus testing automation tools from TestQuest for accelerated time-to-market. The acquisition of TestQuest supports BSQUARE's strategy to grow its products business and support customers with the highest quality software and services available, while also helping them realize the shortest time to market. TestQuest brings to BSQUARE new enterprise and mobile operator customers such as United States Postal Service, T-Mobile International, Kyocera, Telefónica Móviles and Siemens, representing a significant expansion of its market opportunity.
Announcement Date: November 20, 2008
Deal Value: $2.2 Million (Cash)
Seller Revenue: $4.8 million (2008)
Fixstars acquires Terra Soft Solutions
Fixstars Corporation, provider of Cell Broadband Engine-based solutions, acquired Terra Soft Solutions, the developer of Yellow Dog Linux. Terra Soft was founded in 1999 to provide a Linux operating system for the Power architecture family of microprocessors. With its early roots in the Apple PowerPC, Terra Soft grew to become one of the top five Apple Value Added Resellers, uniquely licensed to install an alternative to Mac OS, with customers including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, NASA, DoE labs and top universities. In the fall of 2005 Terra Soft began its work with Cell under contract with Mercury Computer. A year later Terra Soft expanded its Cell support to the Sony PS3. In 2007, Terra Soft released YDL v6.0 with support for the IBM BladeCenter QS2x family of products. Through this acquisition, Fixstars will continue to maintain Yellow Dog Linux as the only Linux OS with support for every Cell/B.E. based product on the market, including Fixstars' own GigaAccel 180 and Sony ZEGO BCU-100.
Announcement Date: November 12, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
SpringSource Acquires G2One Inc.
SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the “de facto standard” in enterprise Java, acquired G2One Inc., the company behind the popular Groovy and Grails technologies. With the acquisition of G2One, SpringSource will now offer global enterprise support offerings for developers and IT operations that utilize Groovy and Grails applications. The combined forces of Spring and G2One not only accelerate innovation, but also deliver SpringSource’s 24x7 global support network to the growing number of enterprises adopting Groovy and Grails at the heart of their applications. The Spring Framework, Groovy and Grails are three of the most popular application infrastructure solutions in the world. Groovy is one of the most popular alternative languages for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), with more than 30,000 downloads per month. Adoption of Grails has soared, with downloads racing from 7,000 to 70,000 per month in the past year.
Announcement Date: November 11, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed