Dublin-based InishTech debuts today as a new startup relaunching Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services, a business unit Redmond booted back in October 2007 following its acquisition of the company Secured Dimensions in January of the same year.
At the end of September 2008, Microsoft stopped accepting new SLPS customers, which we got confirmation of when we researched and reported the quiet shut-down. SLP Services was a software licensing suite that provides developers with the ability to protect code, license software, create license versions, and track performance and profitability of products created with .NET. For more information, you can watch this non-embeddable video.
InishTech, founded through collaboration between Microsoft IP Ventures, Enterprise Ireland and local entrepreneurs Aidan Gallagher, John O’Sullivan and David Smyth, will now take on responsibility for SLP Services’ existing customer base and will “continue to provide, expand and grow the service to independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers around the world”. Microsoft will license its IP to InishTech and maintain a minority interest in the startup.
The video guy’s voice makes me envy the deaf.
Microsoft’s products are the most pirated in the world – do we trust them to have the solution to piracy?
thanks alot
Interesting that MS couldnt sell the business and had to go with a startup to get it going again?
Anyway, good luck to them, the more good anti-piracy solutions for ISVs the better IMO.
Here at Nalpeiron (www.nalpeiron.com) the original independent player and leader in Hosted Software Licensing with over 1000 ISVs we will see how they do in the second chance around.
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