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; and in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. It developed a software-streaming product and an embedded OEM development platform. It was founded in 1980 as VenturCom. On December 20, 2006,

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Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence. In 2008, some former Ardence executives acquired the Ardence programs from Citrix and formed IntervalZero.

History

VenturCom was founded in 1980, by Marc H. Meyer, Doug Mook, Bill Spencer and Myron Zimmerman. The company changed its name to Ardence in 2004. On December 20, 2006,

Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence. In 2008, a group of former Ardence executives founded IntervalZero and acquired the Ardence embedded software business from Citrix. Citrix retained a minority ownership the firm.

Products

The enterprise software-streaming product deployed

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- to be provisioned, or re-provisioned from bare metal. The core technology behind the software streaming product was a

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over a custom UDP protocol. Basically, computers were configured to

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a kernel that contained this device driver.

Awards

In 2005, Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award. In 2006, Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld.

References

External links

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Research report on Ardence by infoworld

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