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Ferrari Challenge

In 2008, System 3's Mark Cale created Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli, the official game of the Ferrari Challenge featuring the licensed Ferrari F430 Challenge Italian, European and North American 2007 series.

Flipboard

Flipboard is produced by Flipboard, Inc., a United States–based software company founded in 2010 by Mike McCue and Evan Doll and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

History of the Dylan programming language

Andrew Shalit (along with David Moon and Orca Starbuck) wrote the Dylan Reference Manual, which served as a basis for work at Harlequin (software company) and Carnegie Mellon University.

Sterling Software

Interview by David Allison, 6 December 2002, focuses on ongoing developments at University Computer Corporation, the eventual sale of this firm to Computer Associates, Wyly's formation of Sterling Software, its acquisition of Informatics, the sale of Sterling, and his ideas on the future of information technology.

XSB

XSB is the name of a dialect of the Prolog programming language and its implementation developed at Stony Brook University in collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the New University of Lisbon, Uppsala University and software vendor XSB, Inc.


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Aimargues

While agriculture and wine production are still important contributors to the local economy, more recent players such as Royal Canin, the dog and cat food producer, Itesoft, a software company, and the underwear company Éminence are also important employers, benefitting from easy access to the motorway with connections to Italy and Spain as well as to the north of France.

Arcada

Arcada Software, was a computer software company that was formed in early 1994.

Artech

ARTech Consultores SRL, a Uruguayan software company, creators of GeneXus, Deklarit and Gxportal

BBBB

Blackboard Inc., NASDAQ symbol BBBB, a Washington, D.C. software company

Caligari

Caligari Corporation, an American software company acquired by Microsoft

Charles Geschke

Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (born September 11, 1939) is best known as the 1982 co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company.

CommVault Systems

(NASDAQ: CVLT), founded in 1996, is a publicly traded data management and information management software company headquartered in Oceanport, New Jersey.

Corticon

is a Business Rule Management System software company that provides enterprise software products designed to automate decision management through use of a patented rules engine that does not require coding.

Denodo

Denodo Technologies is a software company with headquarters located in Palo Alto, CA (USA) and main offices in A Coruña (Spain), Madrid (Spain) and London (UK).

Digesting Duck

The duck is used as the symbol for the software company Automatic Duck, Inc.

Elliot Richardson

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Richardson was the attorney for Inslaw, Inc., an American software company which alleged that its software had been pirated by the U.S. Justice Department.

EMIS

Egton Medical Information Systems - a software company serving medical practices in Great Britain

Equis

Equis International (or Equis) a Thomson Reuters software company which produces technical analysis software used in stock markets.

Eric C. Anderson

Anderson's first job after graduating was as an engineer and business developer at Analytical Graphics, an aerospace software company based in Philadelphia.

Eric Pulier

Subsequently, Mr. Pulier founded SOA Software, an organization that he built into the largest independent software company in its category, counting over 200 of the Global 2000 as customers and running over 6 billion transactions/month around the world.

Euclideon

Euclideon Pty Ltd is an Australian computer software company best known for an unreleased middleware 3D graphics engine, called Unlimited Detail.

Francesco Rulli

As another Film Annex project, in 2012, Rulli and Roya Mahboob, founder and CEO of the Afghan Citadel Software Company (ACSC), launched the Afghan Development Project and Women's Annex.

Gaddesden Place

The building, which is listed as Grade II, was purchased in 1984 by Charles Moir, founder of Computer Concepts (later Xara from 1995), a software company, and has been the headquarters of Xara Group Ltd, latterly acquired by MAGIX, since that time.

Guy Berruyer

Prior employment included the French software company Groupe Bull where he was director of marketing until 1990 and Claris, where he created the French division and grew into the role of European manager until 1994.

IMDS

IMDS Group International Media Data system, a French software company.

Instituto Pedro Nunes

Some examples of successful technological companies born in or otherwise linked to the IPN, include software company Critical Software, thermo-mechanical and electronics engineering company Active Space Technologies, and biotechnology company Crioestaminal.

Jack Dangermond

In 1969, he co-founded with his wife Laura the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately held Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software company.

Janet Echelman

Echelman’s studio is collaborating with design software company Autodesk, who have developed custom engineering software to make this effort possible, and are sponsoring the sculpture.

Joan Blades

Joan Blades (b. ca. 1956 in Berkeley, California) was the cofounder in 1987 with her husband Wes Boyd of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company known for marketing the After Dark screensaver and the You Don't Know Jack trivia game.

John Galt

Rubin mentions John Galt Solutions (a software company) and the John Galt Corporation (a demolition company) as examples of companies named after the character.

Johnny Stenbäck

He started working on the source code soon after the release, then working for the Finnish software company Citec.

L.A. Boyz

Jeff Huang returned to the United States and started an internet company that later merged with a Japanese software company in a 60 million dollar deal before once again returning to Taiwan and fronting hip-hop group Machi; brother Stanley went on to establish a successful solo career, winning Best Mandarin Male Singer in the 2005 Golden Melody Awards; and Lin currently works as an orthopedic surgeon in California while still participating in music and film.

ManagePro

by Performance Solutions Technology, LLC, a US software company headquartered in Smith River, California.

Martin Roscheisen

- In 1997, Roscheisen, with Stanford professor Yoav Shoham, created TradingDynamics, an enterprise software company which was acquired by Ariba for $740 million in 2000.

Matthau Mikojan

The single Platitude from the album Mental Circus is decided to be one of the title tracks of the computer game NHL 07 from the American software company EA Sports in the end of 2006.

MechWarrior Online

Jordan Weisman, founder of Smith & Tinker and previously founder of the disbanded FASA Corporation which worked on the MechWarrior series, negotiated the license back from Microsoft after that software company had left the property idle for years.

Michael O'Regan

In 1973, with Mike Fischer (who had an physics degree from Oxford), O'Regan co-founded Research Machines, a British microcomputer and then software company for the educational market.

MyFax

MyFax is an Internet business communication tool which had been provided by the Ottawa-based software company Protus IP Solutions.

Naked Records

The company was formed in 1995 and was acquired by software company Eidos in 1996, with Thorp and Drummond staying on in their roles as company directors.

NaturalMotion

NaturalMotion is a British software company with offices in Oxford, London, Brighton and San Francisco.

Pavlo Lapshyn

Lapshyn was a doctoral student at the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine in his home city, and won a competition to exchange to Coventry University and partake in work experience at Delcam, a software company in the Birmingham neighbourhood of Small Heath.

PayWizard

PayWizard, in a partnership with connected TV software company Easel TV and video technology company Ooyala, was rewarded with the prize for the Best Native App for Connected TV for the ALL3MEDIA app at the ConnectedWorld.TV awards at IBC2012, beating entrants from across the industry including BBC iPlayer and Meteo News TV.

PeakStream

PeakStream was a parallel processing software company located in Redwood Shores, California founded by Matthew Papakipos and Asher Waldfogel in April 2005 and backed by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins.

Robert Hoehl

Robert "Bob" Hoehl (December 13, 1941 – November 7, 2010) was a co-founder of the software company IDX Systems and a Vermont philanthropist.

Rupert Soames

After leaving GEC in 1997, Soames joined the software company Misys as chief executive of its Midas-Kapiti division.

Seth Gordon

In 2009, Gordon developed and directed a video series focusing on the threat posed by cybercrime to Internet users, H*Commerce: The Business of Hacking You, sponsored by antivirus software company McAfee.

Shlomo Breznitz

In 1999 he retired from Haifa University to found brain fitness software company, Cognifit.

Softalk

Bert Kersey, of the small, homey Beagle Bros software company, was one columnist; as were Doug Carlston, co-founder of Brøderbund software; Mark Pelczarski, founder of Penguin Software; and Bill Budge, creator of Pinball Construction Set, Bill Depew, creater of Apple 21 and Magic Window.

Thunderstone

Thunderstone Software, a software company specializing in enterprise search

Too Much Media

Too Much Media is a Freehold, New Jersey-based computer software company that created and maintains the NATS, Carma and Sparta software packages.

XNS

Ixonos, a mobile wireless software company (stock symbol)

Yuval Boger

CEO of Unwired Express, a software company in the enterprise mobility space and General Manager at Radcom Ltd.