Phurnace Blog tagged 'phurnace'

Press Release - Phurnace Software, Inc. Closes Additional Venture Financing

jgass — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

AUSTIN, Texas — July 21, 2008 — Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced that it has completed its $5 million Series A financing, led by S3 Ventures, a Texas-based venture capital firm. Previous investors, including DFJ Mercury, also participated in the financing. The capital will be used by Phurnace to expand sales, marketing and development activities for its patent-pending deployment automation products.

The company provides IT opera [...]

Dancing for Dollars

Pete Pickerill — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

As you may, but probably don't know, Phurnace got some Phunding. The management team put in countless hours over the last several months and the process was apparently fraught with twists and turns that would give Gordias pause. Thankfully, our fearless leaders didn't share with us each and every bump in the road. Even more thankfully they didn't share with us those moments, of which I'm sure there were a few, when the road disappeared altogether. I'm a lot like Bill Paxt [...]

Dull and Boring == Errors and Omissions

Robert Reeves — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100

BBC has a news report on how boring tasks can lead to errors and omissions. Evidently, your brain will go into 'autopilot' mode when performing redundant, boring tasks. Apparently, there is a specific bit of brain activity that can occur right before you are about to make a mistake.

Until they can make a portable MRI for data ce [...]