* Binary Research, a company founded in Auckland, New Zealand by Murray Haszard in 1991 after the sale of his previous company, B32 Software

Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California, and finally in Austin, Texas.

Robert ( Bob ) M. Frankston ( born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York ) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

* CDC Software, a computer software company

Euphoria continued to be developed and released by Craig via his company Rapid Deployment Software ( RDS ) and website rapideuphoria. com.

Eiffel was originally developed by Eiffel Software, a company founded by Bertrand Meyer.

* Eiffel Software, a software company

For example, in 1980, a company called " Don't Ask Software ", founded by Randy Simon, created a version called " Abuse " for the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore PCs, which verbally abused the user based on the user's input.

At the same time, several smaller companies began offering TCP / IP stacks for DOS and MS Windows, such as the company FTP Software, and the Wollongong Group.

Id Software LLC is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas.

When Romero saw the demo, entitled " Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement ", he realized that Carmack's breakthrough could have potential, the team that would later form Id Software immediately began moonlighting, going so far as to " borrow " company computers that were not being used over the weekends and at nights while they designed their own remake of Super Mario Bros. 3.

As a result, the Id Software team began the development of Commander Keen, a Mario-style side-scrolling game for the PC, once again " borrowing " company computers to work on it at odd hours at the lake house at which they lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Id Software is the only game development company ever honored twice by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, having been given an Emmy Award in 2007 for creation of the 3D technology that underlies modern shooter computer games.

* Lotus Software, a personal computer software company, best known for Lotus Notes and the 1-2-3 spreadsheet application

Software development company Microware developed the original OS-9 operating system ( not to be confused with the more recent Mac OS 9 ) for the 6809, later porting it to the 68000 and i386 series of microprocessors.

The transaction would convert Macrovision's Software Business Unit into a stand-alone software company following the close of the transaction, which included FLEXnet, InstallShield, Adminstudio family of products.

Mark Bishof, Macrovision's Software Business Unit's Executive Vice President and General Manager, would assume the role of CEO for the stand-alone software company following the close of the transaction.

On the day the acquisition was completed, the standalone company was named Acresso Software.

Next, Inc. ( later Next Computer, Inc. and Next Software, Inc. and stylized as NeXT ) was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets.

NeXT withdrew from the hardware business in 1993 and the company was renamed NeXT Software Inc ; subsequently 300 of the 540 staff employees were laid off.

* Optimized Systems Software, a former software company

* PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company

* Quicksilver Software, a computer games company based in Irvine, California

Qt Development Frameworks ( formerly known as Qt Software, Trolltech and as Quasar Technologies ) is an Oslo, Norway-based software company best known for its Qt toolkit and application framework.

In 1988 Ashton-Tate filed suit against Fox Software and Santa Cruz Operation ( SCO ) for copying dBase's " structure and sequence " in FoxBase + ( SCO marketed XENIX and UNIX versions of the Fox products ).

" It did not trade under its own name, but was a holding company for the three startups: Discount Software, Software Distributors, and Ashton-Tate.

( Note: Microsoft would later acquire Fox Software after Borland acquired Ashton-Tate and the United States Department of Justice forced Borland to not assert ownership of the dBASE language.

1993 was pivotal for the xBase community because, as previously noted, Ashton-Tate had earlier sold dBASE as well as the rest of their product line to Borland and Microsoft had purchased FoxPro from Fox Software.

Early alumni of this company included Ed Esber who would later run Ashton-Tate, Bill Coleman who would found BEA Systems, Mitch Kapor founder of Lotus Software and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Rich Melmon who would co-found Electronic Arts, Bruce Wallace author of Asteroids in Space, and Brad Templeton who would found early dot-com company ClariNET.

Ashton-Tate sold off the rights for dBASE Mac in June 1990 to a former dBASE Mac user who formed New Era Software Group to continue development.

It was criticized by the Free Software Foundation

AMOS BASIC was published by Europress Software and originally written by François Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos.

His " Software Tools " series spread the essence of ' C / Unix thinking ' with makeovers for BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal-and most notably his ' Ratfor ' ( rational FORTRAN ) was put in the public domain.

It was developed by Grady Booch, while at Rational Software ( now part of IBM ).

Software can be quite a profitable industry: Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was the richest person in the world in 2009 largely by selling the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office software products.

Software for early computers was primarily written in assembly language.

A Cabal room in use at Valve Software. During the rise of Usenet, the term was used as a semi-ironic description of the efforts of people to maintain some order over the chaotic, anarchic Usenet community ( see backbone cabal ).

The Voluntary Content Rating ( VCR ) system was devised by Solid Oak Software for their CYBERsitter filtering software, as an alternative to the PICS system, which some critics deemed too complex.

On August 12, 2011, it was confirmed that a new Counter Strike game was in development at Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment, which also codevelops Counter-Strike: Source, going under the title Global Offensive.

Watts Humphrey's Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) was published in 1988 and as a book in 1989, in Managing the Software Process.

The first public version of Doom was uploaded to Software Creations BBS and an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin – Madison on December 10, 1993.

* Duke: Nuclear Winter: This add-on was developed by Simply Silly Software and WizardWorks.

Duke Nukem 3D ( Sega Saturn ) was ported by Lobotomy Software and published by Sega.

BIND was first released with Berkeley Software Distribution 4. 3BSD, and as such, it is free and open source software.

* RAISE, Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering, was developed as part of the European ESPRIT II LaCoS project in the 1990s, led by Dines Bjørner.

It was written by John Draper's Cap ' n Software, which also produced a version of Forth, which EasyWriter was developed in.

For 2006, $ 9. 6 billion of revenue came from the Americas ( Canada, Latin America, and the United States ); $ 8 billion from Europe, Middle East, and Africa ; $ 1. 5 billion from Asia-Pacific ; Services ' revenue was: Infrastructure $ 12 billion, Applications Software $ 5. 9 billion, Business Process Outsourcing $ 3 billion and all other $ 421 million.

The Software Freedom Law Center was founded in 2005 to protect and advance FLOSS.

Software was commonly shared by individuals who used computers and by hardware manufacturers who welcomed the fact that people were making software that made their hardware useful.

Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.

The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman and published in March 1985 in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools as an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project, and to call for participation and support.