His current consulting practice is to help startups get going. See the profile of Arthur Keller in TechWeb on March 10, 2000. Dr. Keller provides technical and business strategy advice to e-commerce startups. He sometimes provides some seed funding, but only to the startups he works with directly. Persistence Software is the technology leader in the Transactional Application Server market, providing a foundation for distributed computing.
Persistence accelerates the development and deployment of high-performance distributed systems.
Persistence Software went public on June 25, 1999. Inc. Mergent develops applications for the business to business e-commerce market. Its applications address the challenge of creating, operating, and maintaining industry catalogs for Internet market makers. Mergent is unique in its ability to deal with the issues facing net market makers including sourcing data from distributed sites, dealing with unstructured, missing or incomplete information, and providing fast and easy access to catalog and related information. Dr. Keller is a founding advisor and a member of the Board of Directors of Globallinx Network , which provides free Internet access to hotel guests through their proprietary in-room Internet Appliance.