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Ipswitch company history timeline

1991

Roger Greene founded Ipswitch in 1991 out of his apartment without any venture capital funding or bank financing.

1994

In 1994, Ipswitch launched the IMail server, the first product available on the e-commerce site, Open Market.

1996

In 1996, the company released the beta version of WhatsUp Gold, a commercial version of an earlier shareware product, WS_Ping, as well as purchasing the rights to WS_FTP.

2008

In 2008, Ipswitch acquired the Wisconsin-based software producer Standard Networks Inc. and its product MOVEit.

2009

The company acquired Salt Lake City-based Hourglass Technologies in 2009.

2012

In December 2012, Ipswitch acquired the Waldorf, Germany-based performance testing company iOpus known for its product, iMacros, a web-browser extension.

2015

In 2015, Ipswitch merged its network monitoring and file transfer divisions and created the PartnerSynergy program.

2016

Ipswitch opened a support and operations center in Galway, Ireland in March 2016.

2019

On 28 March 2019, Ipswitch signed an agreement with Progress Software Corporation, whereby Progress will acquire Ipswitch.

The completion of the purchase for $225 million was announced by Progress on May 1, 2019.

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