verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message windward studios industry software development founded 1996 headquarters boulder colorado united states key people shirley clawson ceo david thielen cto lawrence goldman dir . marketing troy williams dir . sales website www.windward.net windward studios is a software development company based in boulder colorado . the company began in 1996 with the release of enemy nations a popular real time strategy game before focusing on its reporting software program windward reports . contents 1 1996 2003 enemy nations 2 2003 present windward reports windward studios 3 2011 present code wars 4 media coverage 5 references 6 external links 1996 2003 enemy nations edit main article enemy nations windward studios was founded by david thielen as a software gaming company . enemy nations is a real time strategy game that received very high rankings in video game magazines . 1 2 the publisher went out of business shortly after the game s release forcing developer windward studios to sell the game exclusively from its website . since october 2005 the game is non commercial freeware 3 and the game and the source code was made available to download . 2003 present windward reports windward studios edit in 2003 the company realigned and focused on offering an enterprise level suite of reporting and document generation tools for business teams called windward reports . windward reports is comparable to other reporting software such as crystal reports and pentaho . windward reports customers include ge industrial equipment services fidelity investments and pfizer inc. 4 windward s solution includes a . net or java engine a set of code libraries for integrating reporting and document generation into both internal and commercial software applications and autotag a template design tool that allows technical and non technical users create report and document templates in microsoft office . windward s products have been positively reviewed in eweek 5 and devsource . 6 2011 present code wars edit windward studios sponsors the annual international collegiate programming championship aka code wars a huge student hackathon where teams from top universities around the world have 8 hours to analyze a problem create a solution and test it against the entries of the other programming experts . 7 media coverage edit cubicle wars an early marketing video by the company received an overwhelming response when it debuted in 2006 . 8 with over 2 million views on youtube and digg.com the video became an internet phenomenon large enough to merit a response in businessweek s august 2007 smallbiz publication . 8 references edit enemy nations reviews . february 1996 . enemy nations . march 1997 . the end of an era . windward . 2005 10 01 . archived from the original on 2005 11 24 . retrieved 2013 10 26 . october 1 2005 we just sold the last copy of enemy nations . ... if you have a copy and want to give a copy to a friend you have our permission to burn a cd with a copy of enemy nations with one major caveat . you must give them the game . you can not sell it to them . you can not include it as part of anything you sell . it can not be included with any product or magazine as a free extra . the person making the copy must even buy the blank cd . it must be a true free gift given totally separate of anything else . hamilton lysa d. 05 11 2007 . windward gives companies report producing solutions . boulder county business report . retrieved 2009 06 18 . check date values in date help rapoza jim 2005 05 30 . windward aces reports . eweek . mischel jim 2005 09 18 . windward reports simplifies your app s reporting . devsource . moss caroline 2014 02 01 . students from all over the country are competing in a code war today . business insider . a b king rachael august september 2007 . make some noise . business week . retrieved 2009 06 18 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title windward studios & oldid 739034636 categories video game companies of the united statessoftware companies of the united statesbusiness software companiescompanies established in 1996hidden categories cs1 errors datesarticles needing additional references from june 2009all articles needing additional referencesofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia 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 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