Herndon, Virginia-based Legent Corp is buying again, though this time it is just a bit of infilling. It is picking up the 14-employee $3m- to $4m-a-year Performance Technologies Inc, based in Boston, Massachusetts, which specialises in application management tools for Oracle. Legent can now provide customers with support tools for Oracle databases and applications as well as for DB2 and Adabas. The Performance Ace family comprises products for use in the design, build, test, production, and maintenance stages of an Oracle application development cycle: ACE Converter is for automated conversion of SQL Forms 2 to Forms 3. ACE Insight provides application-wide monitoring, tuning, and analysis. ACE Timer provides end-user timing information to monitor service levels of production applications; and ACE Tester is an automated application testing tool and debugger claimed to reduce testing and cost cycles by 50%. It has some 500 customers worldwide; terms were not given.
