New acquisition, new HQ fuel Rogue Wave’s growth

LOUISVILLE — Powered by this month’s acquisition of Zend Technologies and growing into a larger headquarters space, software-development toolmaker Rogue Wave Software is gearing up for new hires to serve clients across five major web-development languages.

The company, which just moved from Boulder to Louisville, acquired Cupertino, Calif.-based PHP web and mobile-application developer Zend Technologies on Oct. 7. Zend, which was founded in Israel, drew its name from co-founders Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans.

Gaining Zend’s PHP-scripting expertise “still tells our code story, but to different people,” said Christine Bottagaro, Rogue Wave’s marketing manager.

“We focus at the code level, so people don’t…