Rogue Wave Software
| Company type | Public (former) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software development |
| Founded | January 1, 1989 in Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Founder | Thomas Keffer, Richard Romea |
| Defunct | January 1, 2019 |
| Fate | Acquired by Perforce in January 2019 |
| Headquarters | Louisville, Colorado , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Akana, CodeDynamics, HostAccess, HydraExpress, IMSL Numerical Libraries, PV-WAVE, JRebel, XRebel, Klocwork, SourcePro, Stingray, TotalView for HPC, Visualization products, Zend Server, Zend Studio |
| Parent | Perforce (from 2019) |
Rogue Wave Software was a United States–based software company headquartered in Louisville, Colorado. It specialized in delivering cross-platform development tools and embedded components tailored for parallel processing, data-heavy workloads, and various high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
In January 2019, Minneapolis-based application software company Perforce acquired Rogue Wave and continues to support its product lineup.
History
Established in 1989 in Seattle, Washington by Thomas Keffer and Richard Romea, Rogue Wave's initial offering was the C++ class library Math.h++. The following year, the company moved to Corvallis, Oregon and introduced Tools.h++, which predated the Standard Template Library. Rogue Wave made its public debut on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker RWAV in November 1996. In January 1998, it expanded by acquiring Stingray Software, known for object-oriented development tools aimed at Windows programmers.
By 2001, the ".h++" series had been unified into SourcePro C++. In 2003, Quovadx acquired Rogue Wave, and four years later, private equity firm Battery Ventures took ownership. Rogue Wave eventually reestablished itself as an independent entity.
The company grew further in May 2009 by purchasing Visual Numerics—creators of the IMSL Numerical Libraries and PV-WAVE analytics software—and TotalView Technologies, which specialized in debugging solutions for C, C++, and Fortran. In 2010, it added Acumem to its portfolio, a firm focused on multicore performance optimization and Threadspotter tools. Additional acquisitions included IBM’s ILOG C++ visualization products in 2012 and their Java/Flex visualization assets in 2014.
Rogue Wave diversified its offerings by acquiring open source consulting company OpenLogic in 2013 and Klocwork, a static code analysis provider, in 2014. To accommodate growth and talent recruitment efforts, the company relocated from Boulder to larger offices in Louisville in 2015. That same year saw the acquisition of Zend Technologies, a leading provider of PHP development tools and services. In 2016, Rogue Wave added Akana, a key player in API management software. The following year it incorporated ZeroTurnaround into its portfolio, known for JRebel and XRebel Java developer productivity tools.
In January 2019, Minneapolis-based Perforce completed its acquisition of Rogue Wave.
Products and services
Among the products Perforce acquired from Rogue Wave were:
- Akana – API management software solutions
- CodeDynamics – tool for dynamic code analysis
- HostAccess – Windows terminal emulation software
- HydraExpress – framework enabling creation of C++ Web services from existing codebases
- IMSL Numerical Libraries – commercial libraries designed for numerical analysis
- PV-WAVE – a fourth-generation programming language geared toward visual data analytics
- JRebel and XRebel – Java development and performance monitoring utilities
- Klocwork – software for static code analysis
- SourcePro – development tools facilitating cross-platform C++ application creation
- Stingray – toolkit for building object-oriented Windows user interfaces
- TotalView for HPC – debugging suite supporting C/C++, Fortran, and Python applications
- Visualization – data visualization products featuring GUI builders and data management capabilities
- Zend Server – web application server tailored to managing PHP applications
- Zend Studio – proprietary integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP
Perforce also obtained OpenLogic from Rogue Wave—a consulting firm with expertise in open source software solutions.
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- Software firms founded in 1989
- Enterprises previously traded on Nasdaq
- Software organizations headquartered in Minneapolis
- Initial public offerings in 1996
- Mergers and acquisitions in 2019
- Software development companies
- Former software companies in the United States
- Defunct software companies of the United States