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

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][9] and OpenVMS[10][11] software product line, and did a Management buyout[12] 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 spun off one division (Axent)[3]
  • Axent Technologies Inc,[13]
  • Axent was acquired by Symantec[14]
  • Symantec dropped some of its acquisitions in 2001. At that point, the founders did a management buyout and got the company back again."[15]

Raxco, which had retained its identity, then changed its course from VAX/VMS to the PC/Server world in 2003.[16]

Raxco Software, Inc.
IndustrySoftware
Founded1978
ProductsPerfectDisk, PerfectUpdater,
PerfectRegistry, PerfectGuard, InstantRescue, PerfectFileRecovery
Websitewww.raxco.com

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:

  • Resource Accounting
  • Capacity Planner / Performance Analyzer
  • Disk Monitor
  • High-Speed Backup
  • Disk-Optimizer [18]
  • Report Generator
  • System Accelerator[19]

Raxco's VAX product line was still active in the 1990s,[20] even as it was building and expanding its PC Product line.[21] By 2003 the PC desktop and server market became the company's focus.[22]

Product line

Aside from PerfectDisk,[23] the company also markets:

  • PerfectUpdater - improves system stability/minimizes hardware conflicts by detecting/installing appropriate drivers for unknown devices[24]
  • PerfectRegistry - Fix registry errors that slow down booting up[25][26]
  • PerfectGuard - Blocks/removes spyware, helps protect privacy[27]
  • InstantRescue - quicker rollback/system restore
  • PerfectFileRecovery - an advanced undelete tool

References

  1. 1 2 "Company Overview of Raxco Software, Inc". Bloomberg News.
  2. ↑ Japanese site: "PowerX PerfectDisk".
  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. ↑ pre-OpenVMS
  10. ↑ "Raxco optimizes OpenVMS". Computerworld. October 24, 1994. p. 84.
  11. ↑ "In 1991, Digital announced that the VAX/VMS operating system would ..."Michael D Duffy (2002). Getting Started with OpenVMS: A Guide for New Users. ISBN 0080507352.
  12. ↑ led by Robert Nolan "Raxco Has Innovative Recipe for NT Market"., who back in 1991 – 1993 "Developed and managed channel sales partners for Raxco software products throughout Europe and Asia." "Robert Nolan".
  13. ↑ "Axent: digital bodyguards". Forbes. May 20, 1998.
  14. ↑ "Symantec Will Purchase Axent in $975 Million Stock Transaction". The New York Times. July 28, 2000.
  15. ↑ Trevor Eddolls (December 17, 2007). "SOA still offering availability".
  16. ↑ "Raxco is a noted name in the business of disk defragmentation." Jeremy Moskowitz (2006). Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows ... ISBN 0470113219.
  17. ↑ "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis..." Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
  18. ↑ prior to PerfectDisk, which came a decade or so later!
  19. ↑ full title: V.A.S.T. - VAX Accelerator Software Technology
  20. ↑ "Raxco optimizes OpenVMS". Computerworld. October 24, 1994. p. 84.
  21. ↑ "Raxco presents new PerfectDisk 2000". PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. June 8, 1999.
  22. ↑ "Raxco is a noted name in the business of disk defragmentation."Jeremy Moskowitz (2006). Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows ... ISBN 0470113219.
  23. ↑ Serdar Yegulalp (March 3, 2009). "What Windows 7 Needs To Succeed". InformationWeek.
  24. ↑ introduced 2011 "RAXCO Markets New Product "Perfectupdater"".
  25. ↑ Reviewed in "Review: PerfectRegistry aims to speed up your PC". PCworld. March 20, 2013.
  26. ↑ noting that it "automatically creates a system restore point before fixing anything so you can undo the changes if needed."
  27. ↑ Trademark file June 20, 2012 "PERFECTGUARD Trademark of Raxco Software, Inc".
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