Red Gate Acquires Microsoft Partner And BizSpark Company Cerebrata

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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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Red Gate this morning announced that it has acquired Cerebrata, an India-based maker of tools that helps developers build applications that run on Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. In fact, Cerebrate is not only a Microsoft partner but also one of their BizSpark startups.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we’re told Cerebrata will continue to operate its own website and services, and its development team will be kept in place for the ‘foreseeable future’.

Read more at TechCrunch Europe.


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Founded in 1999, Red Gate Software produces ingeniously simple tools used by more than 500,000 IT professionals worldwide. The company currently specializes in SQL Server and .NET tools. Red Gate has been chosen as one of The Sunday Times (UK) 100 best small companies to work for in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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