Raxco
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[edit]
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. | |
| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1978 |
| Products | PerfectDisk, PerfectUpdater, PerfectRegistry, PerfectGuard, InstantRescue, PerfectFileRecovery |
| Website | www |
History[edit]
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,[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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ a b "Company Overview of Raxco Software, Inc". Bloomberg News.
- ^ Japanese site: "PowerX PerfectDisk".
- ^ a b Stan Hinden (February 19, 1996). "Software Firm Looks for Security in Public Offering". The Washington Post.
- ^ Les Freed (August 2002). "Defrag with PerfectDisk". PC Magazine. Vol. 21, no. 14. Ziff Davis. p. 56. ISSN 0888-8507.
- ^ "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis". Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
- ^ a b "RABBIT Software from RAXCO ... speed up response times, .. improve your through-put without having to purchase more (hardware)" "Snippet view". Computer Decisions. 1983.
- ^ "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis..." Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
- ^ Len Grzpanka (April 29, 1991). "Raxco releases enhanced VMS monitoring software". Digital News. pp. 27, 73.
- ^ pre-OpenVMS
- ^ "Raxco optimizes OpenVMS". Computerworld. October 24, 1994. p. 84.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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".
- ^ "Axent: digital bodyguards". Forbes. May 20, 1998.
- ^ "Symantec Will Purchase Axent in $975 Million Stock Transaction". The New York Times. July 28, 2000.
- ^ Trevor Eddolls (December 17, 2007). "SOA still offering availability".
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis..." Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
- ^ prior to PerfectDisk, which came a decade or so later!
- ^ full title: V.A.S.T. - VAX Accelerator Software Technology
- ^ "Raxco optimizes OpenVMS". Computerworld. October 24, 1994. p. 84.
- ^ "Raxco presents new PerfectDisk 2000". PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. June 8, 1999.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Serdar Yegulalp (March 3, 2009). "What Windows 7 Needs To Succeed". InformationWeek.
- ^ introduced 2011 "RAXCO Markets New Product "Perfectupdater"".
- ^ Reviewed in "Review: PerfectRegistry aims to speed up your PC". PCworld. March 20, 2013.
- ^ noting that it "automatically creates a system restore point before fixing anything so you can undo the changes if needed."
- ^ Trademark file June 20, 2012 "PERFECTGUARD Trademark of Raxco Software, Inc".