The Apache Software Foundation ( ASF ) is a non-profit corporation ( classified as 501 ( c )( 3 ) in the United States ) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server.

This advanced programming technique is documented in the original 1983 " Atari 3600 Software Guide ".

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.

Software that is not distributed can use the Sleepycat License, as can free and open source software.

Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only.

Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only.

In the case of Software development, this moment is generally agreed to be the publication in the 1980s of the specifications for the IBM Personal Computer published by IBM employee Philip Don Estridge.

Software includes all the various forms and roles that digitally stored data may have and play in a computer ( or similar system ), regardless of whether the data is used as code for a CPU, or other interpreter, or whether it represents other kinds of information.

Software ( or firmware ) is also used in video games and for the configurable parts of the logic systems of automobiles, televisions, and other consumer electronics.

Software quality is very important, especially for commercial and system software like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Software is usually designed and created ( coded / written / programmed ) in integrated development environments ( IDE ) like Eclipse, Emacs and Microsoft Visual Studio that can simplify the process and compile the program.

However, representing oneself as a " Professional Software Engineer " without a license from an accredited institution is illegal in many parts of the world.

* Portable. NET, part of the dotGNU project, is a Free Software implementation of ECMA-335 by Free Software Foundation.

The model is based on the process maturity framework first described in the 1989 book Managing the Software Process by Watts Humphrey.

Software piracy has often been given by trade publications and user groups as the reason for the Amiga's demise, but this view is controversial.

Most important of these is Software in the Public Interest, the owner of the Debian trademark and umbrella organization for various other community free software projects.

Notable for using this data model is the ADABAS DBMS of Software AG, introduced in 1970.

Doom ( typeset as DOOM in official documents ) is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter video game by id Software.

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software.

He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext and Userland Software, a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

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

Euphoria is a programming language originally created by Robert Craig of Rapid Deployment Software in Toronto.

Eiffel is an ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer ( an object-orientation proponent and author of Object-Oriented Software Construction ) and Eiffel Software.

Software synthesis ' roots go back as far as the 1950s, when Max Mathews of Bell Labs wrote the MUSIC-N programming language, which was capable of non-real-time sound generation.

Toward the end of the 1990s, the company ( now called QNX Software Systems ) began work on a completely new version of the QNX RTOS, designed from the ground up to be SMP capable, and to support all current POSIX APIs and any new POSIX APIs that could be anticipated while still retaining the microkernel architecture.

Beyond the scripting needs, most leading management software in the world, such as MOM, SMS, ADS, HP OpenView for Windows ( HPOV ), BMC Software or CA, Inc. are WMI-enabled and capable to consume and provide WMI information through various User Interfaces.

The goal of the RunUO Software Team is to provide software that is scalable and capable of recreating the EA Games server environment.

While John Carmack initially warned gamers not to purchase the GeForce 4 MX ( which casual consumers often confused with the DirectX 8 capable GeForce 4 Ti, though it was at best an improved GeForce 2 ), its somewhat widespread adoption compelled id Software to add it to the list of supported cards.

RAMIS Software is a fourth-generation programming language capable of generating reports using simple language and many fewer lines of code than previous third-generation programing languages such as COBOL.

Around this time, Scott Miller of Apogee Software learned of the group and their exceptional talent, having played one of John Romero's Softdisk games, Dangerous Dave, and contacted Romero under the guise of multiple fan letters that Romero came to realize all originated from the same address.

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.

It is known for producing software titles such as CorelDRAW, for having acquired Jasc Software, developers of Paint Shop Pro, in October 2004, and other major companies and products such as Ulead Systems and WordPerfect.

In 2008, John D. Carmack of id Software said that EA is no longer the " Evil Empire " and decided to go with EA Partners, despite having a poor opinion of the publisher's past record.

There is also the Brazilian initiative, named Open Mind Common Sense in Brazil ( OMCS-Br ), leaded by the Advanced Interaction Lab at Federal University of São Carlos ( LIA-UFSCar ) started in 2005 in collaboration with the Software Agents Group at the MIT Media Lab which main goal is to collect Brazilian's common sense and develop culturally sensitive software applications based on extracting cultural profiles ' knowledge from ConceptNet to help developers and users on better suite the final user's reality on having a culturally contextualized content software, making the final applications more flexible, adaptive, accessible and usable.

In May 1983 Cole changed the name of the SPI holding company to be Ashton Tate, which put the company in the position of having a mail order company " Discount Software " and " Software Distributors " as subsidiaries.

In 2008, the evolving ICM for Software with its risk-driven anchor point decisions, proved very useful to several projects which ended up having unusual life cycle phase sequences.

Soon after the acquisition of TimeLine / Breakthrough Software, Eubanks reorganized Symantec, structuring the company around product-centric groups, each having its own development, quality assurance, technical support and product marketing functions, and a General Manager with profit and loss responsibility.

De Raadt has been a vocal advocate of Free Software since the inception of OpenBSD, but he is also a strong proponent of free speech, having on occasion had rather public disputes with various groups, from Linux advocates to governments.

Published versions of FSF's Free Software Definition existed as early as 1986, having been published in the first edition of the ( now defunct ) GNU's Bulletin.

The Library is having SOUL Software made by INFLIBNET.

As such, instead of having to trust mozDex to be fair, it puts the trust on the community of users through the same " peer review " process that is believed to enhance security of Free Software like Linux.

Sensible Golf, a simple golf video game ( not a simulation ), in classic Sensible style, did not perform well in the market and with most of Sensible's staffing resources having been thrown into a very progressive but politically unreleasable political hot potato of a game called Sex ' n ' Drugs ' n ' Rock ' n ' Roll that had initially been signed by Warner International Entertainment and subsequently dropped by their purchasers, GT Software, Sensible's days were looking numbered and the owners were looking for a smooth exit.

In 2000 Ernie Ball / Music Man was raided by the copyright lobby group the Business Software Alliance and accused of having unlicensed software installed at its premises.

Its inaugural editorial team included editor Chris Anderson, Software Editor Bob Wade, freelance writer Steve Cooke ( who joined the staff from the recently-folded Personal Computer Games ), and reviewers Gary Penn and Julian Rignall, who won their jobs after having placed as finalists at a video game competition.

Brothers Dario and Milo Casali, who had contributed four levels to TNT: Evilution, were assigned the task of creating what became Plutonia after having sent an eight-level WAD they had created to American McGee and managing to impress him along with the rest of the id Software crew.

This was due to copyright issues concerning the sound library used by original DOS version and id Software having no access to the source code of the Windows port by Microsoft.

Two former core members of the company — Mike Montgomery and John Phillips — have gone on to found Tower Studios ( along with Sensible Software founder Jon Hare ), and state their involvement with Bitmap Brothers as having ended in 2004.

High school students, Jason Rubin and Andy Gavin, having experimented with Lisp and C ++, teamed up to create video games and founded " Jam Software " in 1984.

The rights to Simtex's games are now held by Atari — a third Master of Orion game was published by Atari ( a subsidiary company of Infogrames ) in 2003, having been developed by Quicksilver Software.

He describes Carmack and Romero as the driving forces of id Software, but with very different personalities: Romero is presented as having unbridled creativity and considerable skill, but he loses focus when the spectacular success of the games allows him to adopt a rock star-like public persona.

Not having a programmer to rely on, Ethan Petty created the game using The Games Factory which was a controversial move amongst Bloodlust Software fans.

Software consumers, having little else to fall back on, have simply accepted the lesser standards as normal.