Rocket Software buys Zephyr for Terminal Emulation

Posted on by Joe Hertvik

Alex Woodie at IT Jungle has the story.

Note that this is the second big acquisition that Rocket made this year. Last month they acquired IBM’s iCluster business.

And don’t forget that they also bought Aldon in 2011 and Seagull Software in 2006.

With this, Rocket is looming a little larger in the IBM i world and it’s also helping to shrink the number of vendors in that marketplace. This may just be another symptom of the mature marketplace that IBM i lives in, as companies like Rocket, Help/Systems, and Infor have grown by acquisition in recent years, and few (if any) start-up companies has shown up to grow the market.

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2 Responses to Rocket Software buys Zephyr for Terminal Emulation

  1. Jeffrey Smith says:
    February 15, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    Hi and thanks for the tips, and the web page really looks great. What wordpress design are you using?

    • Joe Hertvik says:
      February 15, 2012 at 9:24 pm

      Thanks, Jeffrey. I’m using WordPress Twenty Ten 1.3 for the theme. I’m also using JetPack for managing the subscriptions and a few other things.

      The only real tweak I had to do was to add code to the loop to display an excerpt on certain sites that are aggregating my posts. Before I put in the fix, my entire post was showing up on sites like planet-i.org (good IBM i aggregator). Once I put in the fix, those sites (should) now only show the excerpt with a ‘Continue Reading’ button to view the rest of the article. Much better.

      What are you using? Eventually, I may outgrow this theme and want to put in things like affiliates. But I’ll cross that bridge later.

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