Leading software vendors in this field are: Microsoft Corporation ( Microsoft Voice Command ), Digital Syphon ( Sonic Extractor ), LumenVox, Nuance Communications ( Nuance Voice Control ), Speech Technology Center, Vito Technology ( VITO Voice2Go ), Speereo Software ( Speereo Voice Translator ), Verbyx VRX and SVOX.

Software vendors have put in place a wide range of countermeasures to protect themselves from people employing SoftICE as a tool to analyse software.

The Open Group members include a range of IT buyers and vendors as well as government agencies, for example Capgemini, Fujitsu, Oracle, Hitachi, HP, Orbus Software, IBM, Kingdee, NEC, SAP, US Department of Defense, NASA and others.

Tiger Software produced the SmartPhone suite which was primarily aimed at allowing CRM application vendors to add CTI functionality to their existing applications with minimal effort.

After changing their name to Mondago, Tiger Software went on to produce the Go Connect server application, which is aimed at providing at helping other CTI vendors integrate with a wider range of telephone systems.

* Among the other vendors offering Winsock-compliant TCP / IP and UDP / IP stacks were ( alphabetically ) 3Com, Beame & Whiteside, DEC, Distinct, FTP Software, Frontier, IBM, Microdyne, NetManage, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Trumpet Software International.

The Clipper language is being actively implemented and extended by multiple organizations / vendors, like XBase ++ from Alaska Software and FlagShip, as well as free ( GPL-licensed ) projects like Harbour and xHarbour.

Software vendors often advertise auto-punching or auto-digitizing capabilities.

SAP partners include Global Services Partners with cross-industry multinational consulting capabilities, Global Software Partners providing integrated products that complement SAP Business Suite solutions, and Global Technology Partners providing user companies with a wide range of products to support SAP technology, including vendors of hardware, database, storage systems, networks, and mobile computing technology.

* Software developers and independent software vendors ( ISVs ).

Some of the leading vendors are IBM, Oracle, OpenText Corporation ( formerly Vignette Corporation ), JBoss, and Software AG.

Software developers could release a single binary for all platforms, and software users would have freedom to procure multiple vendors ' hardware competitively.

Some believe that HAVA may represent an effort to help large electronic voting systems vendors such as Premier Election Solutions ( formerly Diebold Election Systems ), Election Systems & Software, and Sequoia Voting Systems make millions of dollars throughout the country in selling electronic voting devices.

* Initiative for Software Choice, a group of software vendors

Current case management software programs have progressed substantially as referenced by other commercial vendors such as New Dawn Technologies ( JustWare ), CourtView (), Software Unlimited, LawBase, and CSI Technology Group ( InfoShare ), competitors of Inslaw Inc.

At the time IBM had proposed AD / Cycle, which was an alliance of software vendors centered around IBM's Software repository using IBM DB2 in mainframe and OS / 2:

Most of the major middleware vendors ( e. g., Red Hat, webMethods, TIBCO Software, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle ) have had some form of SOA 2. 0 attributes for years.

Prior to WS-ReliableMessaging, OASIS produced a competing standard ( WS-Reliability ) that was supported by a coalition of vendors ; namely Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle Corporation, Progress Software, and Sun Microsystems.

Software kill switches have been shown to have varying degrees of success, as false positives have been known to occur, prompting some vendors like Microsoft to " turn off " the software kill switch in response to market pressure.

as a task force comprising five industrial automation vendors ( Fisher-Rosemount, Rockwell Software, Opto 22, Intellution, and Intuitive Technology ), with the purpose of creating a basic OLE for Process Control specification.

Software vendors claiming CWM support differ in the degree to which they comply with CWM.

In November 2002 MSC Software reached a final agreement with the FTC to resolve an antitrust case against the company in connection with two acquisitions of rival CAE vendors, Universal Analytics, Inc. ( UAI ) and Computerized Structural Analysis & Research Corp. ( CSAR ).

* Service Provider License Agreement, a type of Software license agreement offered by vendors such as Microsoft, which allows hosted service providers to pay for the underlying software according to how much it was used and for how long

The traditional BBC Micro publishers such as Acornsoft, Superior Software and Micro Power offered the widest support.

Software thus encompasses a wide array of products that may be developed using different techniques such as ordinary programming languages, scripting languages, microcode, or an FPGA configuration.

Software standard organizations like the W3C, IETF develop software standards so that most software can interoperate through standards such as XML, HTML, HTTP or FTP.

Valve Software, the creators of games such as Half-Life, use " Cabal Rooms " when working on projects such as new games or bug fixes.

Cloud computing for call centres extends cloud computing to Software as a service, or hosted, on-demand call centres by providing application programming interfaces ( APIs ) on the call centre cloud computing platform that allow call centre functionality to be integrated with cloud-based Customer relationship management, such as Salesforce. com or Oracle CRM and leads management and other applications.

* A Midi Controller used to trigger different aspects of DJ Software, such as Serato Scratch Live, Virtual Dj, and Traktor.

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

Software such as the PLECS interface to Simulink uses piecewise-linear approximation of the equations governing the elements of a circuit.

Software applications such as GnuPG or PGP can be used to encrypt data files and Email.

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.

The shareware distribution method was initially employed by Id Software through Apogee Software to sell their products, such as the Commander Keen, Wolfenstein and Doom games.

Since Id Software and some of its licencees released the source code for some of their previous games, several games which were not ported ( such as Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Heretic, Hexen, Hexen II, and Strife ) can run on Linux and other operating systems through the use of source ports.

Id Software has also overseen several games using its technology that were not made in one of their IPs such as Shadowcaster, ( early-Id Tech 1 ), Heretic, Hexen ( Id Tech 1 ), Hexen II ( Quake engine ), and Orcs and Elves ( Doom RPG engine ).

When properly implemented, as in the Columbia University Kermit Software collection, Columbia University's Kermit group claim performance is equal to or better than other protocols such as ZMODEM, YMODEM, and XMODEM, especially on poor connections.

After installation, they can be added through an option in the Software Sources Manager, or by using console commands generated either manually or by one of several helper sites such as Easy URPMI.

Software upgrades usually require setting up the operating system or portions thereof, and are non-disruptive only when using virtualizing facilities such as IBM's Z / OS and Parallel Sysplex, or Unisys ' XPCL, which support workload sharing so that one system can take over another's application while it is being refreshed.

Software companies have developed PDA programs to meet the instructional needs of educational institutions, such as dictionaries, thesauri, word processing software, encyclopedias, and digital lesson planners.

In 1999 when id Software released the code from Quake's engine under the GPL, the workings of the bytecode interpreter were examined and new QuakeC compilers were released, such as J. P. Grossman's qccx and a new version of FrikQCC.

One such distributor, Public Software Library ( PSL ), began an order-taking service for programmers who otherwise had no means of accepting credit card orders.

In the early 1990s, shareware distribution was a popular method of publishing games for smaller developers, including then-fledgling companies such as Apogee Software ( now 3D Realms ), Epic Megagames ( now Epic Games ), and id Software.

However, bulletin board systems ( BBS ) and computer expositions such as Software Creations BBS were the primary distributors of all early low-cost software.

Most groups, such as the Association of Software Professionals, the Software Industry Professionals group and PC Shareware clearly state their position that any software marketed as ' try before you buy ' is shareware.