Raxco
Raxco Software Inc. is a Gaithersburg, Maryland software company. Founded in 1978, the company's products have been sold internationally.
Raxco transitioned from its 1980s
and 1990s VAX and OpenVMS software product line, and did a Management buyout to become a private, independent company after
- first being swallowed up by Axent Technologies Inc,
- which was acquired by Symantec
- which then dropped some of its acquisitions in 2001
- in time to begin its change of course from VAX/VMS to the PC/Server world in 2003.
History
During the 1980s, using the collective name RAXCO Rabbit Software, the company marketed a series of nine software packages for the VAX:
Raxco's VAX product line was still active in the 1990s, even as it was building and expanding its PC Product line.Somewhat beyond
By 2003 the PC desktop and server market became the company's focus.Today
Now a 30+ year old software company, among its present competitors are:
Aside from PerfectDisk, the company also markets:
- PerfectUpdater - improves system stability/minimizes hardware conflicts by detecting/installing appropriate drivers for unknown devices
- PerfectRegistry - Fix registry errors that slow down booting up
- PerfectGuard - Blocks/removes spyware, helps protect privacy
- InstantRescue - quicker rollback/system restore
- PerfectFileRecovery - an advanced undelete tool
