Archive for April 5th, 2006

Screw Software – Curry Sauce is where the money is

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Ok a bag of chips €2 I can just about stomach, but an additional €2 to throw a cup of curry sauce over the top, someone is taking the piss. I reckon a weeks supply of the stuff couldn’t cost more than €10.

Don’t even try and get me started on garlic sauce….

Steeltrace exits for $20million

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

I see in today’s Irish Times that Steeltrace was sold to Compuware for $20million. Steeltrace was a company that was salvaged from the wreckage of Ebeon. They have a requirements management tool (a pretty good one I might add) that gives you a soup to nuts requirements process based on Use Cases. I’ve known Fergal (the CTO) since his Ebeon days and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

Another nice exit for TVC on top of Similarity Systems (that Caulfield fella seems to be everywhere these days:-)) so good times all round for the Irish Software Industry…