Boole and Babbage, Inc.

Year Founded:

1967

Founder(s):

David Katch
Kenneth W. Kolence

Location:

Palo Alto, CA

Description:

Katch and Kolence started business in May 1967 as K & K Associates, consultants in system design methodology. Within a few months, they saw a potential for software products that measured the efficiency of program execution and computer utilization and sought venture capital funding to develop their first software products PPE (Problem Program Evaluator) and CUE (Configuration Utilization Evaluator). The company changed its name to Boole & Babbage in October 1967 and was the first systems software house in Silicon Valley to receive venture capital funding.

Year of First Public Offering:

?

Final Year in Business:

1998

Disposition:

Sold to BMC Software

Price, if sold:

$900 million

Current contact information:

Not applicable

Sources for additional information:

BMC Software's web site Kolence, Ken. "How IBM Killed the Market for Boole & Babbage's CUE Product." Software History Center. Anecdotes/Kolence1, 1998.

Sources for information on this page:

Interview with Ken Kolence by Luanne Johnson on 9/16/1996; Ken Kolence's comments from the transcript of The Software History Center's "One for the History Books" workshop on 09/24/00; BMC Software news release dated 11/02/98; San Francisco Business Times, 11/02/98; personal correspondence from Ken Kolence to Luanne Johnson (various dates).

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