Industry

Software Industry

Information Technology

The global industry that develops, maintains and publishes software, operating mainly on license and maintenance based on premises models or cloud based models such as software, platform and infrastructure as a service, alongside complementary services such as training, documentation, consulting and data recovery. The industry invests heavily in innovation, spending more than 11 percent of net sales on research and development, a share second only to pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and global IT spending was projected at roughly 3.73 trillion dollars in 2024, rising to about 5.26 trillion dollars when telecommunications services are included, with Microsoft, HP, Oracle, Dell and IBM among the dominant players. Between 1995 and 2018 the industry saw about 37,039 merger and acquisition deals worth a combined 1.166 trillion dollars, reflecting continuing consolidation.

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How do software companies make money?

Mainly through licenses with maintenance or cloud subscriptions, plus services such as training and consulting.

Software businesses mainly follow one of two models. The license and maintenance model sells software installed on the customer's own premises, while the cloud model delivers it as a hosted service. The industry also earns from software services such as training, documentation, consulting and data recovery.

How much does the software industry spend on research and development?

More than 11 percent of net sales, second only to pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

The software and computer services industry spends more than 11 percent of its net sales on research and development. Compared with other industries, that is the second highest share, after pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
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Premji transformed Wipro from a vegetable oil company into a major global information technology and software services provider.

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Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation and served as its chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014, building it into a leading enterprise database software company.

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Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, helping build the personal computer software industry.

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Kipyatkov co-founded JetBrains, a developer of software development tools.

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Computer Software
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Software as a service
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Computer-aided design, Building Information Modeling, Software
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Software development
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Computer software Artificial intelligence
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Wikidata: Logitech International S.A.
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It is historically and commonly associated with open-source software, software released with its source code.
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Wikipedia, Network Effect
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For example, hardware may become more valuable to consumers with the growth of compatible software.
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Wikipedia: Stephen Wolfram
Associated With: Stephen Wolfram, Lead
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the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research
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Safra Catz (Wikipedia)
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acquire software rival PeopleSoft in a $10.3 billion takeover
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John Warnock (Wikipedia)
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the graphics and publishing software company
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Dietmar Hopp (Wikipedia)
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German software engineer and billionaire businessman
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Neil Pappalardo (Wikipedia)
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the founder of Meditech, a supplier of information system software for hospitals
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Mitchell Baker (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Mitchell Baker, Lead
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coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
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Marc Andreessen (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Marc Andreessen, Career, Netscape [associated-with]
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suggested starting an Internet software company.
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NAIC: 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services; 511210 Software Publishers
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Veritas Technologies (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Veritas Technologies, Lead, description
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It specializes in storage management software
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Rob Glaser (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Rob Glaser, Lead
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which produces RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix
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Peter Norton (Wikipedia)
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pioneering IBM PC compatible utilities software
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Cycling '74 (Wikipedia)
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is an American software development company
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AverStar (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: AverStar, Lead, industry
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was a software company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1969
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Philippe Kahn (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Philippe Kahn, Technology companies
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Kahn has founded four software companies
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Macromedia (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Macromedia, Lead, industry
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was an American graphics, multimedia, and web development software company
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Bud Colligan (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Bud Colligan, Lead, industry
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former chairman and CEO of Macromedia, a multimedia software company
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Allaire Corporation (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Allaire Corporation, Lead, industry
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Allaire Corporation was an American computer software company
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Joseph J. Allaire (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Joseph J. Allaire, Lead, industry
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is an American-born software engineer and Internet entrepreneur
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Jeremy Allaire (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Jeremy Allaire, Lead, industry
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is an American technologist and Internet entrepreneur
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Robert Dewar (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Robert Dewar, Lead, software company
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cofounder, CEO, and president of the AdaCore software company
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RemObjects Software (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: RemObjects Software, Lead, industry
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It develops and offers tools and libraries for software developers
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Micro Focus (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Micro Focus, Lead, business
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The firm provided software and consultancy.
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OpenText (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: OpenText, Lead, business
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is a global software company that develops and sells information management software
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SCO Group (Wikipedia)
  • Companies In Industry: SCO Group, Lead
    an American software company
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    was an American software company
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NV5 Geospatial Solutions (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: ITT Visual Information Solutions, Lead
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develops products for the visualization, analysis, and management of geospatial imagery and scientific data.
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Oberon microsystems (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Oberon microsystems, Geschichte
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Seither fokussiert sich die Firma auf ihre Cryptographie-Produkte: ocrypto und Oberon PSA Crypto.
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Curl (programming language) (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Curl Inc., External links
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Curl, Inc. and Curl International Corp. develop and distribute a suite of commercial products which are based on the results of the MIT research.
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SoftVelocity Inc. (FOLDOC)
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The distributors of the Clarion family of application development systems.
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Clarion (programming language) (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: SoftVelocity, Lead
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Clarion is a commercial, proprietary, fourth-generation programming language (4GL), multi-paradigm, programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from SoftVelocity used to program database applications.
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Dan Bricklin (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Dan Bricklin, Career, Software Garden
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Dan Bricklin founded Software Garden, a small consulting firm and developer of software applications, in 1985.
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Software Arts (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Software Arts, Lead, industry
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Software Arts was a software company
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Mitch Kapor (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Mitch Kapor, Lead, industry
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application developer in the early days of the personal computer software industry
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Lotus Development Corporation (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Lotus Development Corporation, Lead, industry
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Lotus Development Corporation was an American software company based in Massachusetts
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Progress Software (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Progress Software, Lead
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Progress Software Corporation is an American public company that produces software for creating and deploying business applications.
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Yogesh Gupta (Progress Software)
Associated With: Yogesh Gupta, Biography
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A 30-year software industry veteran, Yogesh held several corporate officer roles at CA Technologies, including the role of Chief Technology Officer for five years and Chief Strategy Officer and head of M&A for two years.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Progress Software Corporation Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (SEC)
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Employment Agreement, dated October 10, 2016, by and between Progress Software Corporation and Yogesh Gupta
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Star Division (Wikipedia)
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Star Division was a German software company best known for developing StarOffice
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Marco Börries (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Marco Börries, Lead, industry
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is a German IT entrepreneur
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Xamarin (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Xamarin, Lead
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San Francisco-based software company
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Nat Friedman (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Nat Friedman, Career, Ximian
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to develop applications and infrastructure for GNOME
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Roketsan (Wikipedia)
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Defense Technology Software Aerospace
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Autodesk
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Software
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Wikipedia, ServiceNow, Inc.
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: ServiceNow, Inc., Lead
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ServiceNow, Inc. is an American software company that supplies cloud computing platforms for the creation and management of automated business workflows.
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Perplexity AI (Wikipedia)
Companies In Industry: Perplexity AI, Lead
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Perplexity AI, Inc., or simply Perplexity, is an American privately held software company offering a web search engine that processes user queries and synthesizes responses.
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Wikipedia: Novell
Companies In Industry: Novell, Lead
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an American software and services company
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Wikipedia: Wolfram Research
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Wikipedia: Digital Research
Companies In Industry: Digital Research, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: BlackBerry Limited
Companies In Industry: BlackBerry Limited, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: KX Systems
Companies In Industry: KX Systems, Infobox: industry
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Software & Tech Services
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Wikipedia: Technical Systems Consultants
Companies In Industry: Technical Systems Consultants, Infobox: industry
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Computer software
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Wikipedia: MathWorks
Companies In Industry: MathWorks, Infobox: industry
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Mathematical computing software
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Wikipedia: Wind River Systems
Companies In Industry: Wind River Systems, Lead
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The company develops embedded system and cloud software consisting of real-time operating systems software, industry-specific software, simulation technology, development tools and middleware.
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Wikipedia: Canonical (company)
Companies In Industry: Canonical, Infobox: industry
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Computer software
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Wikipedia: SAS Institute
Companies In Industry: SAS Institute, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: TIBCO Software
Companies In Industry: TIBCO Software, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: Claris
Companies In Industry: Claris, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: Couchbase, Inc.
Companies In Industry: Couchbase, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: Basho Technologies
Companies In Industry: Basho Technologies, Infobox: industry
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Distributed Systems, NoSQL, Cloud storage software
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Wikipedia: Neo4j
Companies In Industry: Neo4j, Lead
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is a global graph intelligence company that provides technology for analyzing and managing connected data.
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Wikipedia: Elastic (company)
Companies In Industry: Elastic, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: Mark Williams Company
Companies In Industry: Mark Williams Company, Infobox: industry
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Software industry
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Wikipedia: Berkeley Software Design
Companies In Industry: Berkeley Software Design, Infobox: industry
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Computer software
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Wikipedia: Locomotive Software
Companies In Industry: Locomotive Software, Lead
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Locomotive Software was a small British software house that did most of its development for Amstrad's home and small business computers of the 1980s.
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Wikipedia: Teradata
Companies In Industry: Teradata, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: Zend (company)
Companies In Industry: Zend, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: WSO2
Companies In Industry: WSO2, Lead
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WSO2 is a global technology company that develops foundational platforms for enterprises to meet their agentic needs.
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Wikipedia: Guidewire Software
Companies In Industry: Guidewire Software, Infobox: industry
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P&C Insurance Software
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Wikipedia: Computer Associates
Companies In Industry: Computer Associates, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: Rainberry, Inc.
Companies In Industry: Rainberry, Infobox: industry
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Internet software and services
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Wikipedia: The Apache Software Foundation
Companies In Industry: Apache Software Foundation, Lead
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The Apache Software Foundation ( ə-PATCH-ee; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) that supports a number of open-source software projects.
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Wikipedia: Mozilla Corporation
Companies In Industry: Mozilla Corporation, Infobox: industry
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Software
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Wikipedia: Gary Kildall
Associated With: Gary Kildall, Lead: associated industry
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During the 1970s, Kildall created the operating system CP/M among other operating systems and programming tools, and subsequently founded Digital Research, Inc.
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Wikipedia: Arthur Whitney (computer scientist)
Associated With: Arthur Whitney, Lead: associated industry
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Arthur Whitney (born October 20, 1957) is a Canadian computer scientist most notable for developing three programming languages inspired by APL: A+, k, and q, and for co-founding the U.S.
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Wikipedia: John N. Little
Associated With: Jack Little, Lead: associated industry
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"Jack" Little is an American electrical engineer and, in 1984, the CEO and co-founder of MathWorks and a co-author of early versions of the company's MATLAB product.
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He created MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran.
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Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Linux operating system variant Ubuntu.
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He is best known for developing the SAS software suite and for co-founding SAS Institute.
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James Howard Goodnight (born January 6, 1943) is an American billionaire businessman and software developer.
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Sall (born 1948) is an American billionaire businessman and computer software developer, who co-founded SAS Institute, an analytics software company, and created the JMP statistical software.
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Vivek Yeshwant Ranadivé ( vee-VEK RUN-ə-DIV-ay; born 7 October 1957) is an American business executive, engineer, author, speaker and philanthropist Ranadivé is the founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of TIBCO Software, a business intelligence software company, and of Teknekron Software Systems.
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Tom Krause (born 1977 or 1978) is an American business executive who was the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from February to June, 2025 and chief executive officer of the Cloud Software Group.
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Teunis Steven Schuurman (born September 1975) is a Dutch technology and media entrepreneur, best known for co-founding and being the first CEO of Elastic, a data search and analytics company listed at the NYSE (ESTC).
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Andi Gutmans helped to co-create PHP, and co-founded Zend Technologies and is the GM and VP for Data Cloud at Google.
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Zeev Suraski (Hebrew: זאב סורסקי pronounced [ze-ev so-raski]) born 18 February 1976, is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies.
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Wikipedia: Charles B. Wang
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Wang then grew Computer Associates into one of the country's largest ISVs (independent software vendors).
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Artzt (born January 23, 1947) is an American businessesman and software developer.
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Keith Bostic (born July 26, 1959) is an American software engineer and one of the key people in the history of Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix and open-source software.
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Wikipedia: Marshall Kirk McKusick
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Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is an American computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day.
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Wikipedia: Mike Karels
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Karels (August 2, 1956, June 2, 2024) was an American software engineer and one of the key figures in history of BSD UNIX.
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William Frederick Jolitz (February 22, 1957, March 2, 2022), commonly known as Bill Jolitz, was an American software engineer best known for developing the 386BSD operating system from 1989 to 1994 along with his wife Lynne Jolitz.
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Security software, Computer hardware
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Hexagon AB (Wikipedia)
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CAD/CAM Software, Electronics, Enterprise Software, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Software, Technology, Technology Consulting.
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Wikipedia, Trintech
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Financial software
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Wikipedia: Waters Corporation
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Waters Corporation is an American company headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts that provides analytical instruments and software used for chromatography, mass spectrometry, laboratory informatics, and rheometry by the life sciences, materials, and food industries.
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TechnologyOne (Wikipedia)
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TechnologyOne Limited is an Australian enterprise software ERP company founded in 1987.
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Grammarly (Wikipedia)
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Grammarly is an American English-language writing assistant software tool.
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Trend Micro (Wikipedia)
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Computer software
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Constellation Software Inc. (Wikipedia)
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Constellation Software Inc. is a Canadian vertical market software company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
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Playtech (Wikipedia)
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Software
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Canva (Wikipedia)
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Graphic design Software Artificial intelligence
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Splunk (Wikipedia)
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Software, Cloud computing
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Qt Group (Wikipedia)
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Computer software
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR): EDGAR company record for Nutanix, Inc.
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"sic": "7372", "sicDescription": "Services-Prepackaged Software"
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR): EDGAR company record for Figma, Inc.
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"sic": "7372", "sicDescription": "Services-Prepackaged Software"
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Miro (collaboration platform) (Wikipedia)
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Software as a service
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