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Ardence
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Ardence was a software company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with representatives in Washington, D.C.; Virginia Beach, VA; Chicago, IL; Denton, TX; 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.
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On December 20, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence. In 2008, some former Ardence executives acquired the Ardence programs from Citrix and formed IntervalZero.
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History
VenturCom was founded in 1980,[1] by Marc H. Meyer, Doug Mook, Bill Spencer and Myron Zimmerman. The company changed its name to Ardence in 2004.[2]
On December 20, 2006, Citrix Systems Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Ardence.[3]
In 2008, a group of former Ardence executives founded IntervalZero and acquired the Ardence embedded software business from Citrix.[4] Citrix retained a minority ownership the firm.
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The enterprise software-streaming product deployed Microsoft Windows, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux and Turbolinux operating systems, along with all their applications, on demand from networked storage. It allowed any x86-based computer - desktop, server, or device - to be provisioned, or re-provisioned from bare metal.
The core technology behind the software streaming product was a device driver for the selected operating system, which mounts a virtual disk over a custom UDP protocol.[5] Basically, computers were configured to netboot a kernel that contained this device driver.
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Awards
In 2005, Ardence won the ComputerWorld Horizon Award.[6]
In 2006, Ardence won the CRN Best In Show Award at IBM PartnerWorld.[7]
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