des moines iowa 1981 headquarters 2183 grand avenue west des moines iowa products software website www.startly.com www.cesoft.com startly technologies originally and still doing business as ce software is a software development company based in west des moines iowa . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit ce software began as the programming arm of computer emporium a retail computer store begun in 1978 by richard skeie and started publishing software in 1981 . swordthrust a text adventure game for the apple ii by donald brown was one of the company s first titles . other early projects included mission escape an action game by jim jacobson and wall street a financial strategy game by donald brown . 1 subsequent projects focused on business communications and productivity with various software solutions for both macintosh and windows platforms . in 1993 ce software sold the rights to various apple software titles including swordthrust to des moines based prairie group ; 2 in april 1998 prairie group also acquired ce s instant messaging application quickconference ip . 3 in april 2004 a group of ce software employees formed startly technologies acquiring the operating assets of ce software and taking the company private . products edit current product offerings from startly technologies include quickeys a task automator trans lucy 2 a media player quickconference a communications utility docktopus a mac os x dock utility inout tracker . references edit swordthrust manual pdf . ce software . retrieved 2012 01 15 . other products from prairie group . prairie group . retrieved 2015 02 04 . prairie group acquires ce software s instant messaging application . prairie group . 1998 04 21 . retrieved 2015 02 04 . external links edit startly technologies ce software this united states software corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title startly technologies & oldid 645721462 categories companies based in iowasoftware companies based in iowaunited states software company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 february 2015 at 08 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view