and PR firms: Gartner positioned MKS as a leader in the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) for Distributed Platform Forrester named MKS as a leader in Agile development management tools in Forrester Research Inc., May 2010. In late 2009 Michael W. Harris was appointed as the company's President and CEO while Philip C. Deck was appointed Executive Chairman and continues his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors. August 23, 2010 Charlie Janes returns to MKS and is appointed Vice President of Sales for North America. In September, 2010, Andrew M. Wertkin was appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO). November 3, 2010, Michelle Dickey joined MKS as Vice President Federal Sales to spearhead a team for the North American Government market. 2011: The Acquisition of MKS Inc. On May 31, 2011, it was announced that PTC had completed the acquisition of MKS and that MKS would operate as the Integrity Business Unit of PTC going forward. 2016: PTC Announces closure of former MKS office in Waterloo. By mid 2017 all development staff working on former MKS products are laid off, only tiny support staff is left to support now legacy Integrity software. Timeline 1984: Founded 1985: First release of MKS Toolkit 1987: First release of MKS RCS 1992: MKS RCS renamed MKS Source Integrity 1997: MKS goes public on Toronto Stock Exchange under trading symbol 1998: Acquisition of the Implementer product line from Silvon Software, broadening its platform (AS/400) reach and marketshare 1999: Acquisition of Datafocus, a longtime OEM customer of the MKS Toolkit product line. 2000: Vertical Sky begins and ends 2000: Founder and CEO Randall Howard leaves the company 2001: Philip C. Deck joins MKS as CEO and chairman 2001: MKS Source Integrity Enterprise (multi-tier Java EE architecture) launched (later renamed to MKS Integrity) 2002: MKS officially changes its name from Mortice Kern Systems to MKS 2002: Introduced federated server model for remote geographic team support (an alternative to replication) capability built into MKS Integrity 2005: First release of requirements management feature set built within the MKS Integrity 2005: Opening of Asia Pacific division in Singapore 2006: First release of portfolio management capability into MKS Integrity 2006: 2006: First release of MKS X/Server (technology acquired from SCO) 2009: Official release of MKS Integrity 2009 and launch of Intelligent ALM (tm) solution positioning. 2009: Michael W. Harris appointed President and CEO and Philip C.