Tiny Software

Tiny Software, a Silicon Valley-based software company, founded in 1997, was acquired by Computer Associates in 2005. The company developed and marketed Tiny WinRoute, a popular personal firewall, later followed by Tiny Personal Firewall, which was based on it.[1]

Tiny Personal Firewall

The first version of Tiny Personal Firewall was released on July 26, 2000.[2] The popularity of Tiny Personal Firewall stemmed from the fact that it was fairly easy to operate, had a very small hard-disk and memory footprint, and was free for home and personal use.[3]

In February, 2002 the rights to the software was transferred to Kerio Technologies (formed in 2001),[4] where the original team who developed the software under the Tiny brand continued to develop it as Kerio.

Tiny Software continued to develop a software firewall called Tiny Firewall v6;[5] however, this product was not based on the original Tiny Personal Firewall. On December 17, 2004 it was announced that it would be released as Tiny Personal Firewall 2005.[6]

On June 27, 2005 Tiny Software was acquired by Computer Associates;[7] since then their CA Personal Firewall was promoted as being "based on Tiny Software technology".[8]

References

  1. ↑ Tiny Software About (Web Archive)
  2. ↑ Speedguide.net review of Tiny Personal Firewall v1.0
  3. ↑ Personal Firewalls Tests: Tiny Personal Firewall
  4. ↑ Kerio/Tiny name change
  5. ↑ Tiny Software Website 2004
  6. ↑ Tiny Software Website 2005
  7. ↑ CA Acquires Tiny Software - Press Release
  8. ↑ CA Personal Firewall 2007 Official home page
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