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Black Duck Software pioneered the automation of mixed-origin software component reuse management. The company’s products and services allow organizations to analyze the composition of software source code and binary files, search for reusable code, manage open source and third-party code approval, honor the legal obligations associated with mixed-origin code, and monitor related security vulnerabilities. Black Duck is considered a technology industry leader and often cited in media articles about open source.
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology to aid in the design and especially the drafting of a part or product. It is both a visual (or drawing) and symbol-based method of communications whose conventions are particular to a specific technical field.
Drafting can be done in 2d and 3d.
Drafting is the integral communications of technical drawings and is the Industrial arts sub-discipline which underlies all involved technical endeavors. In representing complex, three-dimensional objects in two-dimensional drawings, these objects have traditionally been represented by three projected views at right angles.
Current CAD software packages range from 2D vector base drafting systems to 3D solid and surface modellers. Modern CAD packages can also frequently allow rotations in three dimensions, allowing viewing of a designed object from any desired angle, even from the inside looking out. Some CAD software is capable of dynamic mathematic modeling, in which case it may be marketed as CADD — Computer Aided Design and Drafting.
Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
is also known as Enterprise Asset Management.
A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s maintenance operations. This information is intended to help maintenance workers do their jobs more effectively (for example, determining which storerooms contain the spare parts they need) and to help management make informed decisions (for example, calculating the cost of maintenance for each piece of equipment used by the organization, possibly leading to better allocation of resources). The information may also be useful when dealing with third parties; if, for example, an organization is involved in a liability case, the data in a CMMS database can serve as evidence that proper safety maintenance has been performed.
SofTech, Inc., (NASDAQ: SOFT, is a multinational computer software company with offices in the United States, Italy, Germany and France with a worldwide annual revenue of US$ $12.1 million. Headquartered in Lowell, Ma. SofTech has provided Product Lifecycle Management / Product Data Management CAD / CAM solutions since 1969, one of the earliest software/consulting companies in the US. In December 2002, SofTech acquired Workgroup Technology Corporation (WTC), developer of ProductCenter, the company's PDM/PLM solution. WTC was one of the earliest PDM/PLM providers in the industry, having delivered PLM software products beginning with its first software product CMS in the early 1990s, along with many technology firsts, including the first independent PLM integration to Pro/ENGINEER. In 1996 WTC’s CMS software solution was renamed to ProductCenter.
Types of software houses
There are a number of different types of software houses:
1. Large and well-known companies such as Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, HP, Adobe Systems, Apple Inc. and Red Hat 2. Companies producing specialized Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, such as Panorama, Hyperion, Siebel Systems
3. Companies producing software components, such as Developer Express, Dundas, ComponentOne
4. Application Service Providers, such as SalesForce
5. Companies focused on delivering bespoke software solutions for vertical industries or particular geographical regions
All of these may be categorized in one or many of the following [1]:
1. in-house - the target is to deliver software for internal purposes (for the other departments)
2. contractual - when the software house is contracted to deliver some particular software from outside (software
outsourcing)
3. product development - when it produces ready to use, packaged software; Commercial off-the-shelf
UREI was a designer and manufacturer of recording, mixing and audio signal processing hardware for the professional recording studio, live sound and broadcasting fields. UREI was responsible for many innovations in the recording and sound reinforcement industry including the modern mixing console layout, per channel EQ and effects send buses. The firm began as Universal Audio in Chicago, started in the 1950s by Bill Putnam, Sr. as a design and manufacturing adjunct to Universal Recording, his recording studio business.[1] When Putnam moved to Hollywood in 1957, the manufacturing company was renamed UREI.
WUF Networks, Inc. developed solutions that simplified the control and access of digital content — music, photos,and video — among networked devices, including consumer electronics, mobile devices and personal computers.
The company was probably the first to introduce the concept of Personal Networks - the freedom to access all of your digital content wherever and whenever. WUF Networks software solution allowed digital content to follow its owner regardless of where the content is originally stored. The software solution automatically aggregated and publicized the digital content across a consumers’ Personal Network including their home PC, media center or mobile phone. Because the content was streamed, WUF's solution avoided copyright and IP concerns over the copying of music and video.
With the advent of Apple's iPod, there was a race to enable mobile phones - and all hand held/portable devices - with the ability to access music (and subsequently video) over the network in a legal manner. The company was founded by Turochas "T" Fuad and Francois Dumas and was acquired by Yahoo in late 2004.
Elgg is a white label, open source social networking platform. It offers blog, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be cataloged by tags as well.
Elgg is licensed under the GPL, and runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) platform. It can be setup to integrate with MediaWiki, Vanilla (forum) and Drupal, as well as use plug-ins to provide a calendar, a wiki and more. Details can be found on the main project website. Elgg was originally started by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh, who subsequently founded Curverider. It has been under development
