Vertex developed the Web’s first online defensive driving course in 1997 and sold it to sold to Defensive Driving Online, Ltd. of Houston in 1999, who made it the premier driver course on the Web at www.defensivedriving.com. It has gone on to become the most popular online driving course in Texas and one of the most successful online courses ever developed, with over 725,000 students taking one of its courses in the last eight years. After the sale of the course, Vertex was retained to enhance and maintain the course, and to manage its hardware and networking components as well. In addition to maintenance and code updates, Vertex also supplies the administrative, reporting, and fulfillment applications used by DefensiveDriving.com to manage the course and its business requirements.