Serverware Group plc is a software company formed in November 1983 following a management buyout

Management buyout

A management buyout is a form of acquisition where a company's existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company.- Overview :Management buyouts are similar in all major legal aspects to any other acquisition of a company...

 of Information Systems Group plc.

Early history

The company was formed by Peter Seldon (father of journalist Myma Seldon

Myma Seldon

Myma Seldon is a British television and radio presenter and voiceover artist.-Background:Seldon was born 9 August 1979. She has a 2:1 English/Philosophy B.A. from Leeds University...

) and Selim Kohen to develop systems management

Systems management

Systems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems including computer systems. Systems management is strongly influenced by network management initiatives in telecommunications....

 software. Initially the software focus was on Unix

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

 and Pick

Pick operating system

The Pick operating system is a demand-paged, multiuser, virtual memory, time-sharing operating system based around a unique "multivalued" database. Pick is used primarily for business data processing...

 software, but in the mid-1990s the company moved into Windows NT

Windows NT

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...

 software development. While the core business was software development, the company also resold products developed by other manufacturers (such as Diskeeper

Diskeeper

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, FAXmaker

GFI Software

GFI Software is a developer of Web & Mail security, Networking & Security and Archiving & Fax computer software founded in 1992. Its products include software for filtering spam and viruses from e-mail as well as for monitoring and scanning networks for security purposes.- Products :GFI Software...

, Octopus

EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation , a Financial Times Global 500, Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure hardware, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA.Former Intel executive Richard Egan and his...

, Quota Manager and Remotely Possible) to help with the funding of their own software.

SeNTry

The first NT product to be developed by the company was SeNTry. This allowed administrators to monitor the Event Logs

Event Viewer

Event Viewer, a component of Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems, lets administrators and users view the event logs on a local or remote machine. In Windows Vista, Microsoft overhauled the event system.- Overview :...

 of multiple Windows NT computers from a central location. The list of product features grew as development continued until, in June 1998 the intellectual property rights were bought by Mission Critical Software, Inc., who renamed the product Enterprise Event Manager. They later merged with NetIQ,. No code from SeNTry was part of the Mission Critical-developed product Operations Manager which was later licensed to Microsoft.

Enterprise Configuration Manager

Following the successful sale of SeNTry, Serverware began development of a new management tool. Originally named eNTts (or enhanced NT tool set) the product allowed administrators to manage and control Windows NT services

Windows Service

On Microsoft Windows operating systems, a Windows service is a long-running executable that performs specific functions and which is designed not to require user intervention. Windows services can be configured to start when the operating system is booted and run in the background as long as...

, DLLs and user passwords on remote Windows NT computers. Later versions increased the feature count by adding registry

Windows registry

The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform: the kernel, device drivers, services, SAM, user...

 monitoring, Emergency Repair Disk

Emergency Repair Disk

For information about generic boot/recovery discs, see Recovery discA Microsoft Windows Emergency Repair Disk is a specially formatted bootable media made by some Windows operating systems that contains information about a particular Windows installation, first seen in Windows NT 4.0...

 creation and more.

In 1999 the rights to the product (by this time named Enterprise Configuration Manager or ECM) was sold to a company named Configuresoft, Inc.

Configuresoft, Inc.

Configuresoft, Inc. was an American software company, best known for their Enterprise Configuration Manager software. In May 2009, EMC Corporation announced the acquisition of Configuresoft.In 1999 by E...

, which was founded for this purpose. Serverware took a stake in the new start-up

Startup company

A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...

 as part of the deal.

Serverware after Selim Kohen

In 2000 Technical Director Selim Kohen died, aged 50. As he had been the driving force behind the development of new products the company scaled back their development work, and currently operate primarily as a reseller

Reseller

A reseller is a company or individual that purchases goods or services with the intention of reselling them rather than consuming or using them. This is usually done for profit...

, and the UK distributor for ECMand Aftama IETP technology.

In 2008 Serverware group formed a subsidiary of the main company that specialises in the needs of Government in the UK and Europe they appointed a new CEO to run this operation and develop the core offerings of Serverware Group going forward.

The company also sponsors a motor racing

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

 team, Serverware Racing

Serverware Racing

Serverware Racing is a motorsports team, competing in the UK Britcar championship. The team came first in class at the August 2003 and May 2005 Snetterton races and the October 2004 Silverstone race, and attained pole position for the Brands Hatch GP in April 2004.-History:Serverware Racing was...

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