Rogue Wave Software congratulates our customers, JackBe Corporation and seeMore Technologies, who have been honored in InfoWorld’s 2008 Technology of the Year Awards. Both JackBe and seeMore are innovative ISVs that have included Rogue Wave Software’s Service Data Object technology in their product offerings using HydraSDO for Databases.

JackBe has won the prize “Best Enterprise Mashup Platform” for Presto 1.3.1, which InfoWorld describes as:

JackBe Presto provides a sophisticated set of tools for mashing together your data on the server before delivering it to a JavaScript client. A dashboard delivery mechanism lets end users create their own mashups from data services on the Web, or consume pre-built mashups from the Presto server.

SeeMore has won the prize for the “Best Database Middleware” for the Virtual Database Server 2.8, which InfoWorld describes as:

This brilliant tool from seeMore Technologies will enable a large enterprise to gather its far-flung databases — regardless of their origins — under a single, relational roof. The Virtual Database Server seeks to provide access to just about any data source, even flat text files and highly structured COBOL databases, through standard ODBC, JDBC, or OLEDB interfaces.

Rogue Wave wishes JackBe, SeeMore, and all our customers continued success in 2008!

Welcome to the Rogue Wave Software blog. We’d like to take the opportunity to let you know how it all started.

Rogue Wave Software was founded in the late 1980s by Dr. Tom Keffer, a faculty member of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He named the company after his sailboat.

The first commercial Rogue Wave product was based on a University of Washington project, the Data Analysis and Interactive Modeling System (DAIMS), which was the first attempt at solving large numerical problems in C++. It was launched under the name Math.h++, which can now be found, still going strong, as part of SourcePro Analysis.

The product was quickly expanded into broader class libraries with the launch of Tools.h++ in 1990 as the answer for a general data structure library for C++. Tools.h++ is also still in widespread use as part of SourcePro.

It was Dr. Keffer’s systematic approach as a scientist that resulted in the now legandary reliability and performance of these first two products. This focus provided the basis for everything that has come later. They effectively decided the product direction and roadmap for over 15 years: high performance enterprise application development in C++.

So as C++ applications continue to evolve over time to be part of Service Oriented Architectures, we will be there supporting our customers by providing the reliability and performance they have come to expect.