BMC Software, the leader in IT management, today announced the acquisition of Austin-based StreamStep, a business software provider focused on accelerating enterprise application delivery and improving release quality. The integration of StreamStep’s process management capabilities into BMC’s Application Release Automation (ARA) solution expands BMC’s ongoing efforts to support seamless application management from development to production. Development and operations must collaborate closely to manage application changes successfully into production – a cultural shift in IT that [...]

It was just a matter of time before Phurnace‘s time-saving tools for developers would be noticed by a larger player like IBM, CA, HP, or BMC. Congratulations to the Phurnace team for having the company you’ve built recognized for the value it provides the developer community. Phurnace was a winner of the Moot Corp competiton at the University of Texas, and is also a graduate of the Austin Technology Incubator. Their success is a great [...]