9 June 2009

(From left to right) Aidan Gallagher, CEO and founder of InishTech, Paul Rellis, managing director of Microsoft Ireland, and Feargal O Morain, Enterprise Ireland

New Dublin-based startup company InishTech has entered the market to relaunch Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services.

The company, founded through collaboration between Microsoft IP Ventures and Enterprise Ireland, takes 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 have an ongoing minority interest in the company and will continue to offer product service and support to customers for an initial period to ensure a smooth transition.

The Windows eHome Division is among the base of more than 120 customers that InishTech will take on board and it will continue to work with other product groups, business teams and divisions within Microsoft to expand the use of the SLP Services solution. InishTech is also participating in the Microsoft BizSpark programme and will be actively marketing SLP Services in association with Microsoft.

SLP Services, and now InishTech, fills a security need by offering superior code protection as well as flexible licensing management services

Eddie Amos, Microsoft “New development environments provide major benefits in terms of speed and cost to ISVs but can also create security challenges,” said Eddie Amos, general manager, Platform and Tools at Microsoft. “SLP Services, and now InishTech, fills a security need by offering superior code protection as well as flexible licensing management services.”

SLP Services enables ISVs and developers to implement strong code protection and flexible licensing models aimed at increasing sales, improving development efficiency and providing assurance to customers that their IP is more secure. In addition to security and protection services, InishTech will offer greater flexibility to software publishers relating to licensing models in order to meet increasingly diverse customer demands.

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