Persistence Software was an American software company that operated from 1991 to 2004. Persistence developed software for object-relational mapping. The company was founded in 1991 by Derek Henninger, Christopher Keene and Richard Jensen in San Mateo, California, working with Stanford Professors Gio Wiederhold and Arthur M Keller, who was the Chief Technical Advisor. In 1999, Persistence Software went public on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PRSW. In 2004, Progress Software bought Persistence for $16 million.