DriverAgent.com
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Campbell, California |
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Key people
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Rich Geruson, President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Products | BIOS: SecureCore, SecureCore Tiano, TrustedCore, AwardCore, AwardCore Tiano, MicroCore. Consumer products: FailSafe, HyperSpace, DriverAgent, BIOSAgentPlus, RegistryWizard, Undelete-Plus |
| Revenue |
 $67.7 Million USD (2009) |
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Number of employees
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~300 |
| Parent | Marlin Equity Partners |
| Subsidiaries | iolo Technologies |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 37°24′50.2″N 121°55′30″W / 37.413944°N 121.92500°W
Phoenix Technologies Ltd is an American company that designs, develops and supports core system software for personal computers and other computing devices. The company's products – commonly referred to as BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) or firmware – support and enable the compatibility, connectivity, security and management of the various components and technologies used in such devices. Phoenix Technologies and IBM developed the El Torito standard.
Phoenix was incorporated in Massachusetts in September 1979, and its headquarters are in Campbell, California.
In 1979, Neil Colvin formed what was then called Phoenix Software Associates after his prior employer, Xitan, went out of business. Neil hired Dave Hirschman, a former Xitan employee. During 1980–1981, they rented office space for the first official Phoenix location at 151 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
In this same time period Phoenix purchased a non-exclusive license for Seattle Computer Products 86-DOS. Phoenix developed customized versions of 86-DOS (or sometimes called PDOS for Phoenix DOS) for various microprocessor platforms. Phoenix also provided PMate as a replacement for Edlin as the DOS file editor. Phoenix also developed C language libraries, called PForCe, along with Plink-86/Plink-86plus, overlay linkers, and Pfix-86, a windowed Debugger for DOS. These products only provided a small revenue stream to Phoenix during the early 1980s and the company did not significantly expand in size.
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