Savarese Software Research

What Savarese Software Research does

Savarese Software Research Corporation is a privately-held, bootstrapped software development company founded in 2003 by Daniel F. Savarese and headquartered in Hanover, United States. The firm develops specialized middleware, libraries, and frameworks in C++, Lua, and Java for enterprise software developers. Its product portfolio spans low-level networking (RockSaw, a Java API for IPv4/IPv6 raw sockets deployed on hundreds of thousands of computing nodes inside products at Cisco, Brocade, and Nortel), distributed services (Ssrc Wisp and Web Wispers, an event-based C++ distributed service framework and a Web application framework that scales to over 100 nodes), spatial data structures (libssrckdtree and libssrckdtree-j, k-d tree libraries for C++ and Java), communications middleware (libssrcspread bindings for the Spread toolkit in C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby), templating (ltp), developer tooling (bootstrap), and a discontinued SVG plugin for legacy Internet Explorer. Newer initiatives include Vareos, a device-independent Web/mobile application platform still in technology preview, and Igfip, a forthcoming online boardgame community built on top of Ssrc technologies.

The company operates a dual open-source and proprietary model. The majority of products — RockSaw, Ssrc Wisp, libssrckdtree, libssrckdtree-j, libssrcspread, ltp, bootstrap — are released under the Apache License 2.0 and distributed directly from the company website as source downloads without registration. Web Wispers, originally open source, is now proprietary. Revenue mechanics consist of proprietary one-time software licensing, bespoke custom support and development services solicited through role-based email addresses, and commissioned feature work (illustrated by ByteSphere Technologies funding IPv6 support in RockSaw). Go-to-market is API-first and developer-led: there are no public price lists, no self-serve commerce flow, and no marketing channels beyond an RSS news feed and comprehensive API documentation. Customer-facing logos are concentrated in network management, telecommunications/VoIP, and IP scanning, with named adopters including Cisco, Brocade, Nortel Networks, DE-CIX, Pingtel, SIP Foundry, Monitor My Service, ByteSphere Technologies, and the open-source Angry IP Scanner project. The company has no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no management team beyond its founder.

Name

Savarese Software Research

Legal name

Savarese Software Research Corporation

Website

https://savarese.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Savarese Software Research is a bootstrapped, founder-led US software firm that develops and maintains open-source and proprietary middleware libraries — most notably the RockSaw Java raw-socket API and the Ssrc Wisp/Web Wispers distributed-services frameworks — for enterprise software developers and networking product teams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Software Development Tools

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Developer Tooling & SDK Platforms (BPAMAOAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Low-Code/No-Code Application Platforms (HDAEAKAA), Developer Portals, SDKs & Documentation Platforms (BPAMADAG)

Keywords

• C++ development frameworks
• Java network libraries
• Distributed computing middleware
• Enterprise software development
• Spatial data structures

Headquarters

HQ city

Hanover

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Open Source Software Distribution: Many products are released as open source under Apache License 2.0, available for free download. Early versions of some products like Web Wispers were open source but are now proprietary.
2. Proprietary Software: Current versions of products like Web Wispers are proprietary software. Vareos is positioned as a commercial platform (technology preview) that will form basis of Igfip relaunch.
3. Custom Support and Development: The company offers custom support and development services. Contact page mentions inquiries regarding products and services, and explicit support for corporate developers. Ssrc SVG mentions special needs requiring contracting development work.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Savarese Software Research develops specialized middleware, frameworks, and libraries for enterprise software development, primarily in C++ and Java. The portfolio includes scalable web application frameworks (Web Wispers), distributed service frameworks (Ssrc Wisp), a de facto standard raw socket programming API (RockSaw), spatial data structure libraries (k-d trees), a Lua template processor (ltp), and a development platform for web and mobile applications (Vareos). Most products are released under Apache License 2.0, with proprietary versions and custom development available for enterprise customers.

Product overview

Savarese Software Research is a software development company offering a portfolio of open-source development libraries, frameworks, and tools. The core platform is Vareos™, which provides a platform for building device-independent Web and mobile applications. This platform is built upon supporting technologies including Web Wispers™ (scalable Web application framework) and Ssrc Wisp™ (event-based distributed service framework in C++), which work together to enable scalable, distributed applications. The company also develops specialized libraries including libssrckdtree (C++ k-d tree template library), libssrckdtree-j (Java k-d tree library), RockSaw (Java raw socket API), ltp (Lua template processor), libssrcspread (Spread group communication bindings for C++, Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby), and Ssrc SVG (MSIE SVG plugin). Supporting tools include bootstrap (Autotools initialization script). The Igfip™ platform represents a future consumer-facing gaming initiative. Most products are released under the Apache License 2.0, with Ssrc SVG using Mozilla Public License.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Vareos™: Platform for rapidly building Web-based business and consumer applications with windowed GUI or mobile interface
• Web Wispers™
• Igfip™
• Ssrc Wisp™
• Ssrc SVG
• RockSaw
• ltp
• libssrcspread
• libssrckdtree
• libssrckdtree-j
• bootstrap

Products and services

• Vareos™ A platform for rapidly building Web-based business and consumer applications that present either a windowed graphical user interface or a mobile application interface. Applications are device and operating system independent, usable on desktop or tablet regardless of manufacturer. Currently being demonstrated as a technology preview release and will form the basis of the upcoming Igfip relaunch.
• Web Wispers™ A powerful C++ and Lua computing framework for building Web applications that can scale to over one hundred nodes for enterprise deployments or publicly-facing Web services. Provides low-latency browser-to-browser communication for multi-user interactive Web applications, multi-player games, instant messaging, and collaborative business applications. Currently proprietary software.
• Ssrc Wisp™ An event-based distributed service framework for rapidly building event-based distributed services in C++. Events are delivered as native C++ data structures, avoiding the complexity and performance cost of manipulating intermediate serialization formats. Suitable for constructing custom enterprise services and back-end services for Web applications.
• Igfip™ A forthcoming online gaming community catering to boardgamers. Supports both real-time and turn-based play on Web and mobile platforms. Built using Ssrc technologies, supports low-latency browser-to-browser communication required for multi-user interactive Web applications.
• RockSaw A Java API for performing network I/O with IPv4 and IPv6 raw sockets. The de facto standard API for multi-platform raw socket programming, deployed on hundreds of thousands of computing nodes as part of commercial products and custom enterprise applications. Used by Cisco, Brocade, Nortel Networks, Pingtel, and others.
• libssrckdtree A C++ header-only template library of spatial data structures implementing a k-d tree. Conforms largely to STL associative container requirements, implementing nearest neighbor and k-nearest neighbor search.
• libssrckdtree-j A Java class library of spatial data structures implementing a k-d tree conforming to the java.util.Map interface. Supports multi-dimensional keys and range-searching iterator functions with fully generalized multi-dimensional k-d tree.
• ltp A Lua-based template processor useful for generative programming, producing static Web pages, or as a general purpose preprocessor. Provides 4-5x faster dynamic page rendering compared to ClearSilver. Used for Savarese website generation and as basis for Web Wispers dynamic page rendering.
• bootstrap A bash script that generates the boilerplate initialization required to create a configure script when using GNU Autotools. Provides ability to automate builds for different sets of configuration options such as debug or release builds. Used by Savarese Software Research to generate all open source software releases using GNU Autotools.
• libssrcspread A library providing C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings for the Spread group communication system. Enables distributed messaging and group communication for enterprise applications.
• Ssrc SVG A plugin for rendering SVG and XUL in Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8 on Windows. Provides cross-browser SVG capability for enterprise deployments still using older MSIE versions. Discontinued as of November 2012 due to native SVG support in MSIE 9 and 10.

Quantifiable outcome

• RockSaw deployed on hundreds of thousands of computing nodes as part of commercial products and custom enterprise applications
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature11 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• jNetPcap / Pcap4J: jNetPcap and Pcap4J are Java wrappers around libpcap/WinPcap for packet capture and raw network I/O. They address the same problem space as RockSaw for Java-based network applications and represent a more direct open-source competitor for any developer choosing between two Java networking libraries.
• Hazelcast: Hazelcast provides an open-source in-memory data grid and distributed computing platform for Java. While considerably better capitalized, it competes for the same distributed-services-in-Java use cases addressed by Ssrc Wisp and Web Wispers, particularly in enterprise middleware deployments.
• Point Cloud Library (PCL): PCL is an open-source C++ library for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing that ships a k-d tree implementation as part of its spatial data structure module. It overlaps with Savarese's libssrckdtree for spatial indexing use cases, particularly in robotics and computer vision.

Broad incumbents

• OutSystems: OutSystems is an established low-code application platform that targets the same device-independent web/mobile app development use case as Savarese's Vareos product. It is not a direct technology peer (Vareos is a much smaller, C++/Lua-rooted stack) but is the most relevant category comp for Vareos's long-term monetization potential.
• Apache Software Foundation: The Apache Software Foundation provides stewardship for many of the most widely adopted open-source middleware and distributed systems projects (Kafka, Thrift, Avro, etc.). Savarese releases several Apache 2.0 licensed projects and competes for developer attention against Apache-hosted alternatives in adjacent messaging, RPC, and infrastructure categories.
• Eclipse Foundation: The Eclipse Foundation hosts a wide portfolio of open-source developer tools and Java frameworks, including Paho for messaging and several IoT/embedded runtimes. It is comparable to Savarese because it shapes the Java and C++ developer tooling ecosystem in which Ssrc Wisp, libssrckdtree-j, and RockSaw compete for attention.

Direct peers

• Boost C++ Libraries: Boost is the dominant open-source C++ library collection providing reusable components for threading, networking, and data structures. Savarese's Ssrc Wisp, libssrckdtree, ltp, and bootstrap all target the same C++ developer audience and overlap with Boost's scope, making Boost the most directly comparable peer for the C++ middleware side of Savarese's portfolio.
• ZeroMQ: ZeroMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library used to build distributed and concurrent applications, with bindings across many languages. It overlaps directly with Ssrc Wisp's event-based distributed service framework positioning and libssrcspread's group communication role.
• libpcap / tcpdump: libpcap is the canonical cross-platform C library for raw packet capture, the same problem space RockSaw addresses for Java. Both libraries power network monitoring, scanning, and diagnostic tools across operating systems, making libpcap the most natural direct peer for RockSaw specifically.
• Spread Toolkit: Spread is the underlying group communication toolkit to which Savarese's libssrcspread provides C++, Lua, Perl, Python, and Ruby language bindings. Both products serve the same high-performance distributed messaging use cases for cluster applications, making Spread the closest direct peer for the messaging portion of Savarese's stack.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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