Raxco

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Raxco Software, Inc.
IndustrySoftware
Founded1978
DefunctMay 2024
Products PerfectDisk, PerfectUpdater,
PerfectRegistry, PerfectGuard, InstantRescue, PerfectFileRecovery
Website www.raxco.com

Raxco Software Inc. was a Gaithersburg, Maryland software company. Founded in 1978, [1] the company's products have been sold internationally. [2]

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The company spun off one division as Axent Technologies; the latter was "acquired by venture capital firms in 1988." [3] Meanwhile Raxco continued with its own product offerings. PerfectDisk became its flagship software package. [4] [5]

Raxco transitioned from its 1980s [6] and 1990s VAX [7] (VMS) [8] [NB 1] and OpenVMS [9] [10] software product line, and did a management buyout [11] to become a private, [1] independent company.

Interim ownerships

From the later 1990s thru the early 2000s, corporate ownership of the two organizations transitioned:

Raxco, which had retained its identity, then changed its course from VAX/VMS to the PC/Server world in 2003. [15]

Raxco closed operations in May, 2024. [16] All their standalone products will continue to work,[ until when? ] but no activations will be made, and no updates or support will be offered. Subscription-based products will remain functional until their expiration date.

History

During the 1980s, [6] using the collective name RAXCO Rabbit Software, [17] the company marketed a series of nine software packages for the VAX:

Raxco's VAX product line was still active in the 1990s, [18] even as it was building and expanding its PC Product line. [19] By 2003 the PC desktop and server market became the company's focus. [20]

Product line

Aside from PerfectDisk, [21] the company also marketed:

Notes

  1. ↑ pre-OpenVMS
  2. ↑ prior to PerfectDisk, which came a decade or so later!
  3. ↑ full title: V.A.S.T. - VAX Accelerator Software Technology
  4. ↑ noting that it "automatically creates a system restore point before fixing anything so you can undo the changes if needed."

References

  1. 1 2 "Company Overview of Raxco Software, Inc". Bloomberg News .
  2. ↑ Japanese site: "PowerX PerfectDisk". 3 October 2024.
  3. 1 2 Stan Hinden (February 19, 1996). "Software Firm Looks for Security in Public Offering". The Washington Post .
  4. ↑ Les Freed (August 2002). "Defrag with PerfectDisk". PC Magazine . Vol. 21, no. 14. Ziff Davis. p. 56. ISSN   0888-8507.
  5. ↑ "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis". Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
  6. 1 2 "RABBIT Software from RAXCO ... speed up response times, .. improve your through-put without having to purchase more (hardware)" "Snippet view". Computer Decisions. 1983.
  7. ↑ "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis..." Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
  8. ↑ Len Grzpanka (April 29, 1991). "Raxco releases enhanced VMS monitoring software". Digital News . pp. 27, 73.
  9. ↑ "Raxco optimizes OpenVMS". Computerworld. October 24, 1994. p. 84.
  10. ↑ "In 1991, Digital announced that the VAX/VMS operating system would ..."Michael D Duffy (2002). Getting Started with OpenVMS: A Guide for New Users. Elsevier. ISBN   0080507352.
  11. ↑ led by Robert Nolan "Raxco Has Innovative Recipe for NT Market". 17 July 1998., who back in 1991 – 1993 "Developed and managed channel sales partners for Raxco software products throughout Europe and Asia." "Robert Nolan".
  12. ↑ "Axent: digital bodyguards". Forbes. May 20, 1998.
  13. ↑ "Symantec Will Purchase Axent in $975 Million Stock Transaction". The New York Times. July 28, 2000.
  14. ↑ Trevor Eddolls (December 17, 2007). "SOA still offering availability".
  15. ↑ "Raxco is a noted name in the business of disk defragmentation." Jeremy Moskowitz (2006). Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows ... John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   0470113219.
  16. ↑ "Raxco Software". Archived from the original on May 11, 2024.
  17. ↑ "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis..." Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
  18. ↑ "Raxco optimizes OpenVMS". Computerworld . October 24, 1994. p. 84.
  19. ↑ "Raxco presents new PerfectDisk 2000". PC Magazine . Ziff Davis. June 8, 1999.
  20. ↑ "Raxco is a noted name in the business of disk defragmentation."Jeremy Moskowitz (2006). Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows ... John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   0470113219.
  21. ↑ Serdar Yegulalp (March 3, 2009). "What Windows 7 Needs To Succeed". InformationWeek .
  22. ↑ introduced 2011 "RAXCO Markets New Product "Perfectupdater"".
  23. ↑ Reviewed in "Review: PerfectRegistry aims to speed up your PC". PCworld. March 20, 2013.
  24. ↑ Trademark file June 20, 2012 "PERFECTGUARD Trademark of Raxco Software, Inc".
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