David Gehringer

Fanfare, the leader in system and device testing, provides solutions to help service providers and equipment manufacturers accelerate testing and improve product quality. Its solutions benefit all types of organizations, from the smallest startup with a single device to market leaders with large networks or hundreds of products, and all levels of testing, from an update to an existing product to a full rollout of next-generation technology such as 4G. Many companies have long realized that automated testing is key, but they also realize that building and maintaining test tools is not the best use of their QA and development talent. It experts created iTest, a powerful commercial tool that simplifies and automates system and device testing, for use by all team members throughout the quality workflow.

Mercury Interactive Corporation (MIC), used to develop and market a suite of automated software testing solutions and services to the business technology optimization (BTO) marketplace. Its BTO offerings, were known as Mercury Optimization Centers, which consisted of integrated software, services and practices that enable companies to use a center of approach to govern the priorities, processes and people of information technology (IT), deliver & manage applications & integrate IT strategy and execution. MIC offered products and services in three product lines: IT governance, application delivery and application management. It was founded in 1989 and was located in Mountain View, CA.

Actional Corp. provides enterprise application integration software. Its Web service software helps businesses to deploy, maintain, and manage the application integration process. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.