Quick-Step Floors the Tour de France, taking two stage wins. Bettini defended his world championship in Stuttgart. In 2008 Gert Steegmans took the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. Paolo Bettini retired after the world championship in Varese. In both 2008 and 2009 Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders and Tom Boonen, Paris–Roubaix. After two seasons of disappointment, a resurgent Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and Tom Boonen, took four major Spring classics victories, including the four cobblestone courses E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix. In October 2012, the team fired their veteran rider Levi Leipheimer after he
BMC Software filed quarterly and annual statements with the SEC. Annual stockholder meetings are typically held in Houston during July or August. The stock was originally traded on NASDAQ under the symbol BMCS, then on the New York Stock Exchange with symbol BMC. In 1989, BMC announced plans to lease additional property in Sugar Land and in 1990, Max Watson, Jr. succeeded Hosley as CEO and President. A 20-story headquarters opened in late 1993. A primary BMC product acquired during the early-mid 1990s was Patrol, a "data base and systems management product (which) monitors the status of computers, resources, databases and applications