Raxco

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

Raxco transitioned from its 1980s[3] and 1990s VAX[4] (VMS)[5] and OpenVMS[6][7] software product line, and did a Management buyout[8] to become a private,[1] independent company.

Interim ownerships

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

  • Axent Technologies Inc,[9]
  • Axent was acquired by Symantec[10]
  • Symantec dropped some of its acquisitions in 2001. At that point, the founders did a management buyout and got the company back again."[11]

Raxco then changed its course from VAX/VMS to the PC/Server world in 2003.[12]

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

History

During the 1980s,[13] using the collective name RAXCO Rabbit Software,[14] 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 [15]
  • Report Generator
  • System Accelerator[16]

Raxco's VAX product line was still active in the 1990s,[17] even as it was building and expanding its PC Product line.[18] By 2003 the PC desktop and server market became the company's focus.[19]

Today

Now a 30+ year old[14][20][21] software company,[22][1] among its present competitors are:

Product line

Aside from PerfectDisk,[24] the company also markets:

  • PerfectUpdater - improves system stability/minimizes hardware conflicts by detecting/installing appropriate drivers for unknown devices[25]
  • PerfectRegistry - Fix registry errors that slow down booting up[26][27]
  • PerfectGuard - Blocks/removes spyware, helps protect privacy[28]
  • InstantRescue - quicker rollback/system restore
  • PerfectFileRecovery - an advanced undelete tool

References
  1. "Company Overview of Raxco Software, Inc".
  2. Japanese site: "PowerX PerfectDisk".
  3. "RABBIT Software from RAXCO ... speed up response times, .. improve your through-put without having to purchase more (hardware)" "Snippet view". Computer Decisions. 1983.
  4. "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis..." Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
  5. pre-OpenVMS
  6. "Raxco optimizes OpenVMS". Computerworld. October 24, 1994. p. 84.
  7. "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.
  8. 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".
  9. "Axent: digital bodyguards". Forbes. May 20, 1998.
  10. "Symantec Will Purchase Axent in $975 Million Stock Transaction". The New York Times. July 28, 2000.
  11. Trevor Eddolls (December 17, 2007). "SOA still offering availability".
  12. "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.
  13. "RABBIT Software from RAXCO ... speed up response times, .. improve your through-put without having to purchase more (hardware)" "Snippet view". Computer Decisions. 1983.
  14. "Raxco Rabbit Software, Monitors DEC VAX, Provides graphics analysis..." Computerworld. October 19, 1987.
  15. prior to PerfectDisk, which came a decade or so later!
  16. full title: V.A.S.T. - VAX Accelerator Software Technology
  17. "Raxco optimizes OpenVMS". Computerworld. October 24, 1994. p. 84.
  18. "Raxco presents new PerfectDisk 2000". PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. June 8, 1999.
  19. "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.
  20. UK Trademark 1351517 RAXCO RABBIT SOFTWARE - British Trademark database "UK Trademark 1351517 RAXCO RABBIT SOFTWARE".
  21. Blurb from a multi-national software reseller from this and other software companies "QBS Software".
  22. Bloomberg reports "Founded in 1978" - marking 40 years in 2018
  23. "Disk Defragmentation Boosts Business Productivity". CIO magazine. November 15, 2001.
  24. Serdar Yegulalp (March 3, 2009). "What Windows 7 Needs To Succeed". InformationWeek.
  25. introduced 2011 "RAXCO Markets New Product "Perfectupdater"".
  26. Reviewed in "Review: PerfectRegistry aims to speed up your PC". PCworld. March 20, 2013.
  27. noting that it "automatically creates a system restore point before fixing anything so you can undo the changes if needed."
  28. Trademark file June 20, 2012 "PERFECTGUARD Trademark of Raxco Software, Inc".
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