Query: Which software has been developed by organizations founded in California?

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AVG PC TuneUp <=SEP=> AVG PC TuneUp, previously separate from TuneUp Utilities, is a utility software suite for Microsoft Windows designed to help manage, maintain, optimize, configure and troubleshoot a computer system. It was produced and developed by TuneUp Software GmbH, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany and co-founded by Tibor Schiemann and Christoph Laumann in 1997.

Act-On <=SEP=> Act-On is a software-as-a-service product for marketing automation developed by Act-On Software, a company headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. It is used mostly by small to medium-sized businesses and departments of large enterprises. The company was founded in 2008 and initially sold software exclusively through Cisco, which provided $2 million in funding. It developed an in-house sales team to market the software directly to users and has so far raised a total of $74 million in funding.

Actioneer, Inc. <=SEP=> Actioneer is a software development company founded in San Francisco by David Allen, Russell Bishop and Tom Hagan with an initial investment of $12M in 1994 that developed a software product with Russell Bishop and David Allen originally for use with the MAP seminar offered by Productivity Development Group and later for GTD.

Actuate Corporation <=SEP=> Actuate Corporation is a publicly traded reporting, analytics and customer communications software company based in San Mateo, California, part of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. The company is known for its creation of the open source Eclipse BIRT business data reporting project launched by the Eclipse Foundation in 2004.

Adobe Systems <=SEP=> Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American multinational computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development.

All Shall Perish <=SEP=> All Shall Perish is an American  deathcore band from Northern California, formed in 2002. Currently, the band is signed to Nuclear Blast and have released four full-length albums through the label. Their latest record, This Is Where It Ends was released on July 26, 2011.

American Truck Simulator <=SEP=> American Truck Simulator is an upcoming vehicle simulation game. It is being developed by SCS Software, and is the parallel video game to Euro Truck Simulator 2. It was revealed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015 (E3 2015), although it was first announced in September 2013. The release date is yet to be revealed.

Apache Mesos <=SEP=> Apache Mesos is an open-source cluster manager that was developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It "provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks". The software enables resource sharing in a fine-grained manner, improving cluster utilization.Since being developed at UC Berkeley, it has been adopted by several large software companies, including Twitter, Airbnb and Apple.

Apple Inc. <=SEP=> Apple Inc. (commonly known as Apple) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Its best-known hardware products are the iPhone (a smartphone, and the biggest selling product of all time), the iPad (a tablet computer), Macintosh (commonly known as Mac) personal computers, the iPod (a portable media player),  and the Apple Watch (a smartwatch).

Army Men: RTS <=SEP=> Army Men: RTS is a video game in the Army Men video game series. In this real time strategy game, Sarge, his heroes and the Green Army are hungry to put an end to their nemesis once and for all, the tyrannical Tan army, battling them in 15 campaigns missions, 8 special operation missions and 8 great battles in 3DO's farewell to this series.

Atempo <=SEP=> Atempo, Inc. was founded in 1992 in Paris, France and is a global provider of data management software products designed for preservation and protection of corporate digital assets. The company has dual headquarters in Palo Alto, California and Paris, France, with 13 offices across North America, Europe and Asia.In March 2006, Atempo acquired Storactive and added a desktop/laptop data protection solution called Atempo Live Backup to its product portfolio.

Atimi Software Inc <=SEP=> Atimi Software is a Canadian software company that develops mobile application software and provides consulting services. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Atimi has roughly 80 employees.Founded in 2001, Atimi began as a cross-platform desktop application porting and development company.

Autodesk <=SEP=> Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers' work in its San Francisco building. The company has offices worldwide, with U.S.

Avast (software company) <=SEP=> Avast (stylized as avast!) security software products are developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android and Linux users by AVAST Software s.r.o., a Czech private limited company. Avast was founded in 1991, and is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. It produces antivirus and security programs for personal and commercial use. In January 2015, Avast had 21.4% of the worldwide security vendor market share.

B-Method <=SEP=> The B method is a method of software development based on B, a tool-supported formal method based on an abstract machine notation, used in the development of computer software. It was originally developed by Jean-Raymond Abrial in France and the UK. B is related to the Z notation (also originated by Abrial) and supports development of programming language code from specifications. B has been used in major safety-critical system applications in Europe (such as the Paris Métro Line 14).

Battlezone II: Combat Commander <=SEP=> Battlezone II: Combat Commander, often abbreviated to BZII, BZ2 or Bzone, is a 1999  computer game released by Pandemic Studios as a sequel to Activision's 1998 Battlezone. Like Activision's Battlezone, Battlezone II is a hybrid tank shooter, first-person shooter (FPS) and real-time strategy (RTS) game. The player pilots various futuristic vehicles, while using the function keys to select and command units and structures.

Ben 10: Protector of Earth <=SEP=> Ben 10: Protector of Earth is a video game based on the American animated television series Ben 10. This is the first Ben 10 game and it was released for PSP, PS2, the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii in October–November 2007.

Benetech <=SEP=> Benetech was founded in 1989 by high technology entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman in Palo Alto, California.

Berkeley DB <=SEP=> Berkeley DB (BDB) is a software library that provides a high-performance embedded database for key/value data.Berkeley DB is written in C with API bindings for C++, C#, PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Smalltalk, and many other programming languages. BDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as byte arrays, and supports multiple data items for a single key.

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing <=SEP=> Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing (often simply referred to as Big Rigs) is a 2003 third-person racing video game developed by Stellar Stone and published by GameMill Publishing for Microsoft Windows PC systems.

Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium <=SEP=> Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium  is a 1976 vinyl 2-LP live recording of the show put on by Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Kathryn Crosby and Ted Rogers at the London Palladium from June 21 to July 4, 1976. Musical support was provided by the Pete Moore Big Band and the Joe Bushkin Quartet.

Biotechnology and Integrating Organizational Medicine <=SEP=> Biotechnology and Integrating Organizational Medicine (BIOM), is a small organization devoted to helping people of all races and ethnic groups to find and apply technological advances, good practices, and modern protocols relevant to improving health care and education.Composed exclusively of volunteers, BIOM has its organizational heart in Europe and, while inspired by solidaristic principles, its field of operation is nowhere limited to so called third world countries.

Blackbaud <=SEP=> Blackbaud Inc. (NASDAQ:BLKB) is a supplier of software and services specifically designed for nonprofit organizations. Its products focus on fundraising, website management, CRM, analytics, financial management, ticketing, and education administration.Blackbaud's flagship product is a fundraising SQL database software, The Raiser's Edge. Revenue from the sale of The Raiser’s Edge and related services accounted for thirty percent of Blackbaud’s total revenue in 2012.

Blood Has Been Shed <=SEP=> Blood Has Been Shed was a mathcore group from Connecticut, formed in 1997. They are popularly known for having in the band both one current and one former member of Killswitch Engage, Justin Foley and Howard Jones respectively, though both groups have quite different styles. They have released three albums to date: I Dwell on Thoughts of You in 1999, Novella of Uriel in 2001, and Spirals in 2003. They split up in 2004 when Jones and Foley joined Killswitch Engage.

Borland C++ <=SEP=> Borland C++ is a C and C++ programming environment (that is, an integrated development environment) for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was the successor to Turbo C++, and included a better debugger, the Turbo Debugger, which was written in protected mode DOS.

Borland Together <=SEP=> Together is a product from Borland, formerly from TogetherSoft (acquired by Borland in 2003), that currently integrates a Java IDE, which originally had its roots in JBuilder, with a UML modeling tool.The product line was previously sold in three levels of functionality: Together Developer, Together Designer, and Together Architect; however, since 2007, Together has been unified into a single product.

Borland Turbo C <=SEP=> Turbo C is an Integrated Development Environment and compiler for the C programming language from Borland. First introduced in 1987, it was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, fast compile speed, comprehensive manuals and low price.In May 1990, Borland replaced Turbo C with Turbo C++. In 2006, Borland reintroduced the Turbo moniker.

Bruderhof Communities <=SEP=> The Bruderhof Communities (/ˈbruːdərˌhɔːf/; German: place of brothers) are Christian religious communities with branches in New York, Florida, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania in the US, the United Kingdom, Germany, Paraguay, and Australia. They have previously been called The Society of Brothers and were loosely affiliated with the Hutterian Brethren. The group is also known as Church Communities International.

Bugzilla <=SEP=> Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License.Released as open-source software by Netscape Communications in 1998, it has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a bug tracking system for both free and open-source software and proprietary projects and products.

ByWater Solutions <=SEP=> ByWater Solutions is a privately owned and funded company founded in March 2009 by CEO Brendan A. Gallagher and EVP Nathan A. Curulla, which provides implementation, hosting, support, consultation, and development services for the Koha Integrated Library System.

C++Builder <=SEP=> C++Builder is a rapid application development (RAD) environment, originally developed by Borland and as of 2009 owned by Embarcadero Technologies, for writing programs in the C++ programming language targeting 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, 32-bit Mac OS X, iOS and Android. C++Builder combines the Visual Component Library and IDE written in Delphi with a C++ compiler.

California Fire Safe Council <=SEP=> The name California Fire Safe Council (CFSC) has been used for two very different organizations. The original use of the name, from 1993 through mid-2002, referred to a loose consortium of local community-based fire safe councils and other organizations that shared the mission of making California's communities less vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire. It was funded by the state of California Resources Agency, Department of Conservation, Division of Forestry, also called CDF or CAL FIRE.

California Immigrant Union <=SEP=> The California Immigrant Union was an organization founded in 1869 to promote the settlement of California by people from the Eastern United States and from Europe.The boosterism organization appears to have been active through at least 1875.

Cantera (software) <=SEP=> Cantera is an open-source chemical kinetics software used for solving chemically reacting laminar flows. It has been used as a third party library in external reacting flow simulation codes, such as FUEGO and CADS, using Fortran, C++, etc. to evaluate properties and chemical source terms that appear in the application's governing equations. Cantera was originally written and developed by Prof. Dave Goodwin of California Institute of Technology.

Ceph (software) <=SEP=> In computing, Ceph is a free software storage platform that stores data on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage. Ceph aims primarily to be completely distributed without a single point of failure, scalable to the exabyte level, and freely available.Ceph replicates data and makes it fault-tolerant, using commodity hardware and requiring no specific hardware support.

Chinese Medical Doctor Association <=SEP=> The Chinese Medical Doctor Association (CDMA) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002. This organization is recognized by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China as a primary level national association. CDMA is organized under the Medical Practitioners Act 1999. It has been being developed as the largest and most influential medical association in China for now since it started.

Cisco IOS <=SEP=> Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is software used on most Cisco Systems routers and current Cisco network switches. (Earlier switches ran CatOS.) IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking and telecommunications functions integrated into a multitasking operating system.

Cisco Network Registrar <=SEP=> Cisco Prime Network Registrar (CNR) is a Cisco software product that includes components for Domain Name System (DNS) services, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol services,  Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) services, and Simple Network Management Protocol functions. CNR provides a regional and local management structure and is supported on server hardware and software based on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. This product is now called Cisco Prime Network Registrar.

Cisco Security Agent <=SEP=> Cisco Security Agent (CSA) is an endpoint intrusion prevention system made originally by Okena (formerly named StormWatch Agent), which was bought by Cisco Systems in 2003.  The software is rule-based and examines system activity and network traffic, determining which behaviors are normal and which may indicate an attack. CSA was offered as a replacement for Cisco IDS Host Sensor, which was announced end-of-life on 21 February 2003.

Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System <=SEP=> Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS) was a security monitoring tool for network devices.  Together with the Cisco Security Manager (CSM) product, MARS made up the two primary components of the Cisco Security Management Suite.MARS was an appliance-based solution that provided insight and control of existing security deployments. It could monitor security events and information from a wide variety of sources, including third-party devices and hosts.

Cisco Systems VPN Client <=SEP=> The Cisco Systems VPN Client was a software application for connecting to a virtual private network. The client makes remote resources of another network available in a secure way as if the user was connected directly to that "private" network.In July 29, 2011, Cisco announced the end of life of the product. No further product updates were released after July 30, 2012, and support have ceased in July 29, 2014.

Citizens Foundation <=SEP=> The Citizens Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Reykjavík, Iceland and founded under Icelandic law. Its purpose is to promote electronic collaborative democracy around the globe and to develop the software needed for that purpose. Its formation can be traced back to the Icelandic financial crash in 2008 when development of the software started although the Foundation itself wasn't formally founded until 2010.

Citrix Systems <=SEP=> Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational software company founded in 1989 that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies.The company began by developing remote access products for Microsoft operating systems. It licensed source code from Microsoft and has been in partnership with the company throughout its history. Citrix came to prominence in the 1990s as a leader in thin client technology.

Clam AntiVirus <=SEP=> Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is a free and open-source, cross-platform antivirus software tool-kit able to detect many types of malicious software, including viruses. One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner. The application was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, OS X, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64) and Solaris. As of version 0.97.5, ClamAV builds and runs on Microsoft Windows.

CodeWright <=SEP=> CodeWright is a Windows Programmers Editing System for software developers originally marketed by Premia Corp. (Beaverton, Oregon) and developed by Premia co-founders Eric Johnson and Don Kinzer, initially released in 1991. Premia was acquired in April 2000 by Starbase Corp. which was itself acquired in January 2003 by Borland.CodeWright is considered easy to use by many developers and has powerful extension tools.

Communist Mutants from Space <=SEP=> Communist Mutants from Space was a video game created in 1982 by Starpath (formerly known as Arcadia) for the Atari 2600 home video game console and the Starpath Supercharger cassette accessory.

Competition law <=SEP=> Competition law is a law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement.In Korea and Japan, the competition law prevents certain forms of conglomerates. Competition law is considered a tool to stimulate economic growth in many of Asia's developing countries, including India.

Concord Consortium <=SEP=> The Concord Consortium was founded in 1994 as an educational research and development organization to create large-scale improvements in K-14 teaching and learning through technology.The company conducts research on improving science, math and engineering education with the use of technology. It developed the Vernier Software & Technology probeware for classrooms and mobile computers, created modeling software for genetics and molecular education, and developed a Web-based high school.

Condusiv Technologies <=SEP=> Condusiv Technologies is a software company based in Burbank, California.  The company was formerly known as Diskeeper Corporation, a name derived from its flagship product, Diskeeper, a file-system defragmentation software package for Microsoft Windows and OpenVMS. Before adopting the Diskeeper name, the company was known as Executive Software International, Inc.

Cooliris (plugin) <=SEP=> Cooliris (for Desktop), formerly known as PicLens, is a web browser extension developed by Cooliris, Inc. The plugin provides an interactive 3D-like experience for viewing digital images and videos from the web and from desktop applications. The software places a small icon atop image thumbnails that appear on a webpage.

CopyCatX <=SEP=> CopyCatX is a backup software product produced by SubRosaSoft.com Inc.  The software uses byte and block-level copying to make exact duplicates of devices and volumes.Byte and block-level copying offer speed advantages over traditional file-copying used by most duplication and backup software.  It also maintains every detail of the duplicated device such as icon placement, file permissions, and hidden files that file-copying often misses.CopyCatX is device and file system independent.

Creative Commons <=SEP=> Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.

D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation <=SEP=> The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, is an organization for development cooperation among the following countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.

DATA <=SEP=> Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa (DATA) was a multinational non-government organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's Bono along with Bobby Shriver and activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign.DATA was created for the purposes of obtaining equality and justice for Africa through debt relief, adjusting trade rules which burden Africa, eliminating the African AIDS epidemic, strengthening democracy, furthering accountability by the wealthiest nations and African leaders, and transparency towards the people.

Dark Reign 2 <=SEP=> Dark Reign 2 is a 3D real-time strategy Windows game released on June 30, 2000 by Activision and Pandemic Studios.  Being a prequel to Dark Reign: The Future of War, Dark Reign 2's storyline focuses on what has come before the conflict in the first Dark Reign.  The game features three modes: campaign, online multiplayer and an instant action mode.

DasBoot <=SEP=> DasBoot is a software utility produced by SubRosaSoft.com Inc.  It allows the user to create a bootable Mac OS X USB device.  It is a freeware product that can be downloaded from SubRosaSoft.com Inc.'s website.  This live USB device can be used for diagnostic, repair, and recovery of Mac OS X systems.  It has won a number of awards including a Macworld UK Editor's Choice 5 star award.

Day by Day Christian Ministries <=SEP=> Day By Day Christian Ministries (also known as DBD) is a non-denominational Evangelical Christian mega-church organization headquartered in Makati City, Philippines and the its main worship center at the Folk Arts Theatre, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila.DBD was founded on June 6, 1985 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a small fellowship of OFWs. But the start of the growth of the organization was in the 1990s, when they had the organization set foot in the Philippines.

Dbx (debugger) <=SEP=> DBX is a source-level debugger found primarily on Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux and BSD operating systems. It provides symbolic debugging for programs written in C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN and Java. Useful features include stepping through programs one source line or machine instruction at a time. In addition to simply viewing operation of the program, variables can be manipulated and a wide range of expressions can be evaluated and displayed.

Destroy All Humans! <=SEP=> Destroy All Humans! is an action-adventure game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It was released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox on June 21, 2005 in North America and June 24, 2005 in Europe. The game is set in 1959 in the U.S. and parodies the lifestyles, pop culture, and politics of this time period.

Destroy All Humans! 2 <=SEP=> Destroy All Humans! 2 (also known as Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love as seen in the title screen) is an action-adventure game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It is the sequel to Destroy All Humans!. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox on October 17, 2006 in North America, October 20, 2006 in Europe and October 26, 2006 in Australia. It marks the last game in the series to be developed by Pandemic Studios.

DevPartner <=SEP=> DevPartner is a set of software development and testing tools developed by Nu-Mega Technologies, acquired by Compuware Corporation in 1997, which on June 1, 2009 sold it to Micro Focus International.  There are two versions: one for native and .NET Windows applications, and another for Java applications.

Disabled Children's Computer Group <=SEP=> The Disabled Children's Computer Group  (DCCG) was started in 1983 in El Cerrito, CA by several parents, educators, and assistive technology developers who felt that the new computer technology could assist children and adults with disabilities to speak, write, read, learn, and participate in a larger world. The founding parents, Jackie and Steve Brand, wanted to find tools that their 7 year old daughter, Shoshana, could use - as her fine motor coordination and vision were both impaired.

Dragonstomper <=SEP=> Dragonstomper is a role-playing video game programmed by Stephen Landrum and published in 1982 by Starpath. It was developed for the Atari 2600 video game system.

Dunkard Brethren <=SEP=> The Dunkard Brethren are a small group of conservative Schwarzenau Brethren churches that withdrew from the Church of the Brethren.The Church of the Brethren represents the largest body of churches that descended from the original pietist movement began in Germany by Alexander Mack and seven other believers. Early in the 20th century some members began to feel that there was a drift away from apostolic standards.

DuraSpace <=SEP=> DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2009 when the Fedora Commons organization and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source repository software for managing and providing access to digital content, joined their organizations.The DuraSpace portfolio of open source technologies is developed by librarians, archivists, technologists and researchers who share the goal of creating and preserving long-term access to the world’s digital heritage.

EDUN <=SEP=> EDUN is a fashion brand founded by Ali Hewson and Bono in 2005 to promote trade in Africa by sourcing production throughout the continent. In 2009 EDUN became part of the LVMH group.Danielle Sherman was named Creative Director in April 2013. Her first collection debuted during NY Fashion Week, September 2013. The collection includes a range of ready-to-wear, handbags and accessories.

Entertainment Software Rating Board <=SEP=> The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings, enforces industry-adopted advertising guidelines, and ensures responsible online privacy principles for computer and video games in the United States, nearly all of Canada, and Mexico.

Escape from the Mindmaster <=SEP=> Escape from the MindMaster was a video gamefor the Starpath Supercharger addon for the Atari 2600 published in 1982 by Starpath.Escape from the MindMaster utilizes a tape cassette through the Starpath Supercharger. This is used to bypass the 2K limitation of available memory in the Atari 2600.  Each game has 6 levels, 2 levels per load, giving an effective total of 6K for each game, which allows for better graphics and more complicated gameplay than the average 2K cartridge.

Euclid (computer program) <=SEP=> Euclid is a CAD software which has been developed since 1970.

Eudora (email client) <=SEP=> Eudora /juːˈdɔərə/ is an email client that was used on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems but is no longer under development. It also supported several palmtop computing platforms, including Newton and the Palm OS.

Eudora OSE <=SEP=> Eudora OSE (Open Source Edition), formerly codenamed Penelope, is an extension for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client software implementing some features of Eudora.

FEFLOW <=SEP=> FEFLOW (Finite Element subsurface FLOW system) is a computer program for simulating groundwater flow, mass transfer and heat transfer in porous media and fractured media. The program uses finite element analysis to solve the groundwater flow equation of both saturated and unsaturated conditions as well as mass and heat transport, including fluid density effects and chemical kinetics for multi-component reaction systems.The software was firstly introduced by Dr. Hans-Jörg G.

Falafel Software <=SEP=> Falafel Software Inc. is a software company headquartered in Capitola, CA.  It was founded in 2003 by Lino Tadros, formerly a member of the development team at Borland for Delphi and C++Builder. Tadros has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status six years in a row (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) for his numerous contributions to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, LINQ, ASP.NET, Silverlight, COM, and Web Services.

FileSalvage <=SEP=> FileSalvage is a data recovery product produced by SubRosaSoft.com Inc. It is a Mac OS X application used to recover lost data from hard disk drives, USB flash drives, CD-ROMs, and other media. FileSalvage is device and file system independent and supports recovery from drives formatted for all Mac OS X file system types, including HFS, HFSX and HFS+ as well as FAT12/16/32, NTFS/NTFS5, ext2fs and other file system types.

FireChat <=SEP=> FireChat is a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which uses wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity Framework without an internet connection by connecting peer-to-peer.Though it was not designed with the purpose in mind, FireChat was used as a communication tool in some civil protests.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations <=SEP=> The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO; French: Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, Italian: Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura) is an agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy.

Four phase model <=SEP=> The Four-Phase Model is a model for managers and management consultants developed by Prof. Teun W. Hardjono to analyze present organization and to determine what organizational control points and interventions must be in relation to their strategy.

Fpath Development <=SEP=> Fpath Development provides website development, hosting and domain registration services to individuals, organizations, and businesses. Founded in Jonesborough, Tennessee, in 2003 by Steve Blevins, the company hosts several websites nationwide and local. Fpath has been noted as one of the fastest growing Tennessee companies in 2013. In 2003 the company was a start-up developing VoIP chat community software that was based on the Vedos V2 engine created by Surgey Luity in Ukraine.

Free Software Foundation <=SEP=> The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft "\share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.

Fsn <=SEP=> File System Navigator (fsn; pronounced "fusion") is an experimental application to view a file system in 3D, made by SGI for IRIX systems.Even though it was never developed to a fully functional file manager, it gained some fame after it appeared in the movie Jurassic Park in 1993. In a scene in the film, the character Lex Murphy, played by Ariana Richards, finds a computer displaying the interface.

Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers <=SEP=> Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers is the sequel to the Full Spectrum Warrior video game. It was developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It was released on March 27, 2006 for the Xbox and PlayStation 2; and on April 4, 2006 for Windows.

Full Spectrum Warrior <=SEP=> Full Spectrum Warrior is a real-time tactics videogame. It was developed by the Institute for Creative Technologies in association with Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It was released on June 1, 2004 for the Xbox, September 21, 2004 for Windows and on March 23, 2005 for the PlayStation 2.

GNOME Foundation <=SEP=> The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Orinda, California, United States, coordinating the efforts in the GNOME project.

Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A. <=SEP=> Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A. or Gangstar 2 Kings of LA (for BlackBerry OS) is a mobile game, developed and published by Gameloft. The Java ME version was released in November 2008, the BlackBerry OS version was released in August 5, 2009 and the Nintendo DSi version was released in April 12, 2010. The game is about a gangster, Pedro (nicknamed Chico) and his friend Juan, who have escaped from Mexico. They arrive in Los Angeles looking for money and power.

GlassFish <=SEP=> GlassFish is an open-source application server project started by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform and now sponsored by Oracle Corporation. The supported version is called Oracle GlassFish Server. GlassFish is free software, dual-licensed under two free software licences: the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) and the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the classpath exception.

Google <=SEP=> Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords, an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University.

Graal (compiler) <=SEP=> Graal is an Oracle project aiming to implement a high performance Java dynamic compiler and interpreter.The objective of Graal is to improve the performance of Java virtual machine-based languages to match the performance of native languages.

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts <=SEP=> Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is a new media arts organization and exhibition space  in San Francisco, California. Gray Area hosts exhibitions and music events, software and electronics classes, a media lab and resident-artist program.

Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy <=SEP=> Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy is a 2000 expansion pack to the real-time tactics video game Ground Control. Developed by Massive Entertainment and High Voltage Software, it was first announced in August 2000 by Sierra Studios.

HK2 DI Kernel <=SEP=> HK2 (Hundred-Kilobyte Kernel) is a light-weight and dynamic dependency injection framework and is a part of the GlassFish Application Server.HK2 is JSR-330 compliant and has useful utilities for marking classes as services and interfaces as contracts.Some of the features of HK2 DI Kernel are Custom scopes use of proxies Custom injection resolution Assisted injection J-I-T injection resolution Custom validation and security Run Level Services↑ ↑

Helmi Technologies <=SEP=> Helmi Technologies and its predecessor, Visualway Design evolved from the desire of Finnish user interface (UI) designers and software engineers to build high-impact web-based applications and sites on an open source platform.Visualway Design was founded in 1996 and developed its first AJAX-type e-commerce application in 1997. This software featured layer-based windowing support, client-side payment systems, multiple browser support, and the ability to share information with other applications.

Hewlett-Packard <=SEP=> The Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) is an American global information technology company  headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.

HopeLab <=SEP=> HopeLab is a 501(c)(3) private operating foundation based in Redwood City, CA. HopeLab researches and develops technology-based products to improve human health and well-being. The foundation now focuses on resilience research as part of a strategy to design products that support the psychological and biological health of individuals and communities.

HotSpot <=SEP=> HotSpot, released as the "Java HotSpot Performance Engine"  is a Java virtual machine for desktops and servers, maintained and distributed by Oracle Corporation. It features techniques such as just-in-time compilation and adaptive optimization designed to improve performance.

Hottrix <=SEP=> Hottrix is a software development company that produces applications for mobile operating systems such as iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Android, Palm OS, and Windows. Their iPhone and iPod Touch software has been praised by CNN, Newsweek, Time, and David Pogue for The New York Times. Their software has also been involved in intellectual property disputes.The company also sells physical "gimmix" to complement their magic applications.

Human Rights Data Analysis Group <=SEP=> The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world. The organization has published findings on conflicts in Syria, Colombia, Chad, Kosovo,Guatemala,Perú,East Timor,India, Liberia, Bangladesh, andSierra Leone.

Hyperion Planning <=SEP=> Oracle Hyperion Planning is a budgeting and forecasting application that can improve business predictability. It is formerly owned by Hyperion Solutions Corporation.

IRIS GL <=SEP=> IRIS GL (Integrated Raster Imaging System Graphics Library) is a proprietary graphics API created by Silicon Graphics (SGI) in the early 1980s for producing 2D and 3D computer graphics on their IRIX-based IRIS graphical workstations. Later SGI removed their proprietary code, reworked various system calls, and released IRIS GL as the industry standard OpenGL.

IRIX <=SEP=> IRIX was the operating system developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) to run natively on their MIPS workstations and servers. It is based on UNIX System V with BSD extensions. IRIX was the first operating system to include the XFS file system.The last major version of IRIX was IRIX 6.5 which was released in May 1998. New minor versions of IRIX 6.5 were released every quarter until 2005; since then there have been four further minor releases.

I Dwell on Thoughts of You <=SEP=> I Dwell On Thoughts Of You is the debut album by U.S. mathcore band Blood Has Been Shed. It was released on the September 21, 1999 on Ferret Records.

Image editing <=SEP=> Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they are digital photographs, traditional photochemical photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, using tools such as an airbrush to modify photographs, or editing illustrations with any traditional art medium.

Imatest <=SEP=> Imatest LLC is a company that produces image quality testing software and offers a range of consulting services.  Imatest was founded by photographer/engineer Norman Koren in Boulder, Colorado in 2004 to develop software for testing digital camera image quality.

Imperialism (video game) <=SEP=> Imperialism is a turn-based strategy game for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers, developed by Frog City Software and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. "\SSI") in 1997. In Imperialism, the player is the ruler of a 19th-century country, and aims to become ruler of the world by conquest or by vote. Imperialism was followed by Imperialism II: Age of Exploration.

Imperialism II: Age of Exploration <=SEP=> Imperialism II: Age of Exploration is a turn-based strategy computer game developed by Frog City Software and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) in 1999.  It is the successor to the 1997 game Imperialism. In Imperialism II, the player starts as ruler of a 16th-century European country, and must build an empire.Since 2001 Ubisoft owns the rights to the Imperialism trademark.

InVesalius <=SEP=> InVesalius is a free medical software used to generate virtual reconstructions of structures in the human body. Based on two-dimensional images, acquired using computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging equipment, the software generates virtual three-dimensional models correspondent to anatomical parts of the human body. After constructing three-dimensional DICOM images, the software allows the generation of STL (stereolithography) files.

Initiative for Software Choice <=SEP=> The Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) is a group of companies founded in May 2002.

InnoDB <=SEP=> InnoDB is a storage engine for MySQL. MySQL 5.5 and later use it by default. It provides the standard ACID-compliant transaction features, along with foreign key support (Declarative Referential Integrity).  It is included as standard in most binaries distributed by MySQL AB, the exception being some OEM versions.InnoDB became a product of Oracle Corporation after its acquisition of Innobase Oy in October 2005.

Instabase <=SEP=> Instabase is a company founded by Anant Bhardwaj, that aims to build a cloud-based hub for running data applications. The company is based on the ideas explored in DataHub: a project developed by the founder while a Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.In August 2015, Instabase announced that it has raised $3.8 million from Greylock Partners and New Enterprise Associates.

Intel <=SEP=> Intel Corporation (commonly referred to as Intel) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Intel is one of the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers.Intel Corporation was founded on July 18, 1968.

Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense <=SEP=> The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (Spanish: Asociacion Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente) (AIDA) is a non-profit international environmental law organization founded in 1996 by a collaboration of five environmental organizations in the Americas including Earthjustice.AIDA's headquarters is in Oakland, California.

International Computer Science Institute <=SEP=> The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is an independent, non-profit research organization located in Berkeley, California, USA. Since its founding in 1988, ICSI has maintained an affiliation with the University of California, Berkeley, where several of its members hold faculty appointments.

Internet <=SEP=> The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link billions of devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.

Internet Systems Consortium <=SEP=> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, a Delaware-registered, 501(c)(3) non-profit,  supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality software,  protocols, and operations.

Invitation to Life <=SEP=> Invitation to Life (often known as IVI) is a new religious movement with Catholic background, founded in Paris in 1983 by Yvonne Trubert. It defines itself as a "christic" movement and focuses on miraculous recoveries performed by Christ, but it is not recognized by the Catholic Church. Memberships reached a peak of 7,000 in late 1980s, but are currently on the decline, although the group is present in many European, American and African countries.

JBuilder <=SEP=> JBuilder is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the programming language Java from Embarcadero Technologies.  Originally developed by Borland JBuilder was spun off with CodeGear which was eventually purchased by Embarcadero Technologies in 2008.JBuilder's main competitors are the products from Eclipse Foundation (Eclipse), Genuitec (MyEclipse), JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA), and Oracle (JDeveloper and NetBeans).

JDeveloper <=SEP=> JDeveloper is a freeware IDE supplied by Oracle Corporation. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL and PHP. JDeveloper covers the full development lifecycle from design through coding, debugging, optimization and profiling to deploying.With JDeveloper, Oracle has aimed to simplify application development by focusing on providing a visual and declarative approach to application development in addition to building an advanced coding-environment.

Jack Johnson discography <=SEP=> The discography of Jack Johnson, a Hawaii-born singer-songwriter and guitarist, consists of six studio albums, one soundtrack album, one remix album, two live albums, two extended plays (EP's), twenty singles and four video albums.Johnson's first album was the result of his primary hobbies, film-making and surfing. He used his songs in his personal surf videos, and released a soundtrack accompanying his film Thicker Than Water.

JavaTest harness <=SEP=> The JavaTest harness (or jtreg) is a regression tests framework specifically designed by Sun Microsystems to test the reference Java platform implementation.Although jtreg was originally designed to execute Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) compliance  tests, it is not designed to check compliance of a particular Java implementation to the specification, but to test any regressions suite for the Java platform.

Java (software platform) <=SEP=> Java is a set of several computer software  and specifications developed by Sun Microsystems, later acquired by Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform computing environment. Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms from embedded devices and mobile phones to enterprise servers and supercomputers.

Java API for RESTful Web Services <=SEP=> JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) is a Java programming language API that provides support in creating web services according to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural pattern. JAX-RS uses annotations, introduced in Java SE 5, to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients and endpoints.From version 1.1 on, JAX-RS is an official part of Java EE 6.

Java API for XML Web Services <=SEP=> The Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) is a Java programming language API for creating web services. JAX-WS is one of the Java XML programming APIs. It is part of the Java EE platform from Sun Microsystems.

Java Advanced Imaging <=SEP=> Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) is a Java platform extension API that provides a set of object-oriented interfaces that support a simple, high-level programming model which allows developers to create their own image manipulation routines without the additional cost or licensing restrictions, associated with commercial image processing software.JAI is provided as a free download directly from Oracle Corporation for the Windows, Solaris, and Linux platforms. Apple Inc.

Java Desktop System <=SEP=> Java Desktop System, briefly known as OpenSolaris Desktop, is a desktop environment developed first by Sun Microsystems and then by Oracle Corporation after the 2010 Oracle acquisition of Sun. Java Desktop System is available for Solaris and was once available for Linux.

Java Development Kit <=SEP=> The Java Development Kit (JDK) is an implementation of either one of the Java SE, Java EE or Java ME platforms released by Oracle Corporation in the form of a binary product aimed at Java developers on Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X or Windows. The JDK includes a private JVM and a few other resources to finish the recipe to a Java Application. Since the introduction of the Java platform, it has been by far the most widely used Software Development Kit (SDK).

Jinitiator <=SEP=> Jinitiator is a Java virtual machine (JVM) made and distributed by Oracle Corporation.  It allows a web enabled Oracle Forms client application to be run inside a web browser.  This JVM is called only when a web-based Oracle application is accessed. This behavior is implemented by a plugin or an activex control, depending on the browser.The first two numbers of the version roughly follow the Sun Java numbering convention.

Kelaroo <=SEP=> Kelaroo, based in San Diego, California, USA, is a software and consulting company which supplies consulting, commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), and on-demand scientific software (SaaS) to pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and related industries and research institutes. The company was founded in 2000 by Andrew Reum and Robert Feinstein and has since remained independent.

Kojo (programming language) <=SEP=> Kojo is a  programming and learning environment - with many different features that enable play, exploration, creation, and learning in the areas of computer programming, mental skills, (interactive) math, graphics, art, music, science, animation, games, and electronics. Kojo draws ideas from Logo and Processing.Kojo is open source software, and has been developed by Lalit Pant, a computer programmer and teacher living in Dehradun, India.

Kylix (software) <=SEP=> Borland Kylix is a compiler and integrated development environment (IDE) formerly sold by Borland, but later discontinued. It is a Linux version of the Borland Delphi software development environment and C++Builder, which runs under Microsoft Windows. Continuing Delphi's classical Greek theme, Kylix is the name for an ancient Greek drinking cup. The closest supported equivalent to Kylix is the free Lazarus IDE package, designed to be code-compatible with Delphi.

LISTSERV <=SEP=> The term Listserv (written by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of such software, which allows a sender to send one email to the list, and then transparently sends it on to the addresses of the subscribers to the list.The original Listserv software, the Bitnic Listserv (also known as BITNIC LISTSERV) (1984–1986), allowed mailing lists to be implemented on IBM VM mainframes and was developed by Ira Fuchs, Daniel Oberst, and Ricky Hernandez in 1984.

Laptop theft <=SEP=> Laptop theft is a significant threat to users of laptop and netbook computers. Many methods to protect the data and to prevent theft have been developed, including alarms, laptop locks, and visual deterrents such as stickers or labels. Victims of laptop theft can lose hardware, software, and essential data that has not been backed up. Thieves also may have access to sensitive data and personal information.

League for Catholic Counter-Reformation <=SEP=> The League for Catholic Counter-Reformation (Ligue de la contre-réforme catholique in French-language, also known as CRC), is a nationalist and ultramontane organization founded in 1967 by Georges de Nantes, a former abbot who was suspended a divinis on 25 August 1966. The movement is composed of two religious communities in Saint-Parres-lès-Vaudes, in the Aube department, and in Quebec.

Libtiff <=SEP=> Libtiff is a library for reading and writing Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) files. The set also contains command line tools for processing TIFFs. It is distributed in source code and can be found as binary builds for all kinds of platforms.  The libtiff software was written by Sam Leffler while working for Silicon Graphics.

Linear Tape File System <=SEP=> Linear Tape File System (LTFS) refers to both the format of data recorded on magnetic tape media and the implementation of specific software that uses this data format to provide a file system interface to data stored on magnetic tape. The Linear Tape File System format is a self-describing tape format developed by IBM to address tape archive requirements.

Linux Foundation <=SEP=> The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit technology trade association chartered to promote, protect and advance Linux and collaborative development.

List of Horizon episodes <=SEP=> Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular science and philosophy documentaryprogramme. Series one was broadcast in 1964 and as of August 2014 is in its 51st series.  Nearly 1200 episodes have been broadcast (including specials) with an average of 24 episodes per series during the 50-year run. 1964–1969 – 135 episodes  1970–1979 – 299 episodes 1980–1989 – 234 episodes 1990–1999 – 220 episodes 2000–2009 – 193 episodes 2010–present – 111 episodes

List of NetBeans-based software <=SEP=> The NetBeans platform can be extended by adding different plug-ins, for example: Oracle Solaris Studio, formerly known as Sun Studio, is an IDE based on NetBeans, focusing on the programming languages C, C++, and Fortran. Poseidon for UML Fantom IDE is an IDE for the Fantom language, based on the NetBeans Platform. It provides out of the box support for Fantom as well as for Java, Javascript, CSS, HTML, XML, Subversion, and Mercurial. JSwat is a standalone, graphical Java debugger front-end.

List of The Untouchables (1959 TV series) episodes <=SEP=> This is a list of episodes for the 1959–63 television series The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness.

Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System <=SEP=> LEAP: the Long range Energy Alternatives Planning system, is a Windows-based software system for energy and environmental policy analysis.  It is widely used for integrated energy planning and climate change mitigation analysis and has been applied in hundreds of different organizations in over 190 countries.  LEAP is developed and supported by the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, a non-profit research institute based at Tufts University in Somerville, Massachusetts.

LuraTech <=SEP=> LuraTech is a software company with offices in Remscheid, Berlin, London, and in the USA, which makes products for handling and conversion of digital documents. Its customers are primarily organizations involved in long-term document archiving and scan service providers. It is a member of the PDF Association.LuraTech was founded as a part of a joint project with the Technical University of Berlin intended to bring wavelet compression techniques to digital still images.

MTV2 Headbangers Ball, Vol. 2 <=SEP=> MTV2 Headbangers Ball Volume 2 is the second in a series of heavy metal compilation albums released in conjunction with the MTV2 program Headbangers Ball. The 2-disc album continues the theme of featuring mainstream acts on the first disc and brutal, underground styles on the second disc. It won Metal Edge magazine's 2004 Readers' Choice Award for "Compilation Album of the Year."

Mac OS <=SEP=> Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface–based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems.The original operating system was first introduced in 1984 as being integral to the original Macintosh, and referred to as the "System". Referred to by its major revision starting with "System 6" and "System 7", Apple rebranded version 7.6 as "Mac OS" as part of their Macintosh clone program in 1996.

Malwarebytes <=SEP=> Malwarebytes is an internet security company which makes products that protect home computers, smartphones and companies. The company claims it can block and remove advanced malware like exploits and zero-day threats, which it says traditional anti-virus software misses. Malwarebytes advocates ‘layered protection’ – running alongside existing anti-virus to catch the threats which slip past.Malwarebytes is based in San Jose, in the Silicon Valley area of California.

Manga Studio <=SEP=> Manga Studio (known in Japan as ComicStudio or  Clip Studio Paint) is a software application for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows used for the digital creation of comics and manga. It has been developed since 2001 by the Japanese graphics software company Celsys. It was originally distributed in the Western market by E Frontier America; since 2007 it has been distributed by Smith Micro Software.The program is offered in packages with varying features and prices.

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction <=SEP=> Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published on January 11, 2005 by LucasArts for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The game features an open world environment, with elements of potential stealth gaming and reputation-based social mechanics, and is set during a fictitious multi-national military action in North Korea, circa 2007.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames <=SEP=> Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to 2005's Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, and it was released in the United States on August 31, Europe on September 5, 2008 and November 20, 2008 in Japan.

Michael Knox (software businessman) <=SEP=> Michael Anthony Knox (February 1, 1961 - September 15, 2009) was an American software businessman and expert.  Knox founded Park Place Productions in 1989, which produced such classic video games as John Madden Football and Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing.Knox first became interested in the software gaming industry while he was living in Tracy, California, with his family. A woman, who lived in the area, introduced Knox to the fledgling video game industry.

MicroSociety <=SEP=> MicroSociety, Inc is a non-profit organization located in Old City, Philadelphia that has been preparing children to compete in the global economy for more than 20 years and is operating in over 300 schools across the United States.The concept of "microsociety" was developed and founded by a Brooklyn teacher, George H. Richmond, in 1967. This concept was founded based on the idea that children need motivation and initiative to attend and stay in school. Richmond then launched MicroSociety, Inc.

Microsoft <=SEP=> Microsoft Corporation /ˈmaɪkrɵsɒːft/ (commonly referred to as Microsoft) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.

Midnight Star (video game) <=SEP=> Midnight Star is a science fiction video game developed by Industrial Toys, the company's debut product and the first in the Midnight Star series. It was released on February 5, 2015 for iOS devices, with other platforms to be available later. Set 120 years into the future, the game takes players aboard the MSRV-Joplin, a research vessel newly outfitted with military weaponry to explore a mysterious signal coming from within our Solar System.

Monastic Order of Avallon <=SEP=> The Monastic Order of Avallon is a religious order founded in France in 1970 by Henri Hillion de Coatmoc'han (1923–1980). Hillion was a former member of Order of St. Columban, which belongs to the Celtic Orthodox Church.

Movable Type <=SEP=> Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0 was publicly released on October 8, 2001.The current version is 6.0.4.Movable Type is proprietary software. From June 2007 to July 2013, Six Apart ran the Movable Type Open Source Project, which offered a version of Movable Type under the GPL.

Mozilla Foundation <=SEP=> The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls Mozilla trademarks and copyrights. It owns a taxable subsidiary: the Mozilla Corporation, which employs many Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

Musicmatch Jukebox <=SEP=> Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., was an audio player that managed a digital audio library. It contained an online music store, Internet radio, CD playback and ripping software, and other features commonly found in jukebox software.

MyISAM <=SEP=> MyISAM was the default storage engine for the MySQL relational database management system versions prior to 5.5. It is based on the older ISAM code but has many useful extensions.

MySQL <=SEP=> MySQL (officially pronounced as /maɪ ˌɛskjuːˈɛl/ "My S-Q-L", and unofficially as /maɪ ˈsiːkwəl/ "My Sequel") is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS); in July 2013, it was the world's second most widely used RDBMS, and the most widely used open-source client–server RDBMS.  It is named after co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter, My. The SQL acronym stands for Structured Query Language.

MySQL Cluster <=SEP=> MySQL Cluster is a technology providing shared-nothing clustering and auto-sharding for the MySQL database management system. It is designed to provide high availability and high throughput with low latency, while allowing for near linear scalability. MySQL Cluster is implemented through the NDB or NDBCLUSTER storage engine for MySQL "\NDB" stands for Network Database).

MySQL Enterprise <=SEP=> MySQL Enterprise is a subscription-based service produced by Oracle Corporation and targeted toward the commercial market.

MySQL Workbench <=SEP=> MySQL Workbench is a visual database design tool that integrates SQL development, administration, database design, creation and maintenance into a single integrated development environment for the MySQL database system. It is the successor to DBDesigner 4 from fabFORCE.net, and replaces the previous package of software, MySQL GUI Tools Bundle.

MyTown (video game) <=SEP=> MyTown is a mobile game for the iPhone and iPad. It was made by Booyah, a company who received a $4.5 Million First Round Funding from the iFund of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. It also raised an additional $20 million funding from Accel Partners. The company expects 6 million users by the end of 2010. As of 2011, a sequel, called MyTown 2, has been released.

Mystery Diners <=SEP=> Mystery Diners is an American reality television series on the Food Network. The series, hosted by Charles Stiles, debuted on May 25, 2012.

Nasajon Sistemas <=SEP=> Nasajon Sistemas is a Brazilian software house company, headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company specializes in developing and selling enterprise software products. Founded on August 1, 1982, this organization has been cited multiple times as one of the best companies to work for in Rio de Janeiro.The company was the first to win ISO 9001 certification for marketing, production, technical support and maintenance of systems and business management.

Nashorn (JavaScript engine) <=SEP=> Nashorn is a JavaScript engine developed in the Java programming language by Oracle. It is based on the Da Vinci Machine (JSR 292) and has been released with Java 8.The project was announced first at the JVM language summit in July 2011, and then confirmed at JavaOne in October 2011.On November 21, 2012, Oracle formally announced the open sourcing of the Nashorn source on the OpenJDK repository.

NeXTSTEP <=SEP=> NeXTSTEP is an object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on UNIX, which was developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was used initially its range of proprietary workstation computers such as the NeXTcube and later ported to several other computer architectures. Although relatively unsuccessful at the time, it attracted interest from computer scientists and researchers.

Ness Computing <=SEP=> Ness Computing was a personal search company. It was acquired by OpenTable in March 2014 and was shut down later that year.It was founded in October 2009 by Corey Reese, Paul Twohey, Nikhil Raghavan, and Steven Schlansker. The company was headquartered in Los Altos, California.The company, whose mission is to make search personal, is was sometimes referred to as the "Palantir for fun".

Network Security Services <=SEP=> In computing, Network Security Services (NSS) comprises a set of libraries designedTemplate:By whom? to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications with optional support for hardware TLS/SSL acceleration on the server side and hardware smart cards on the client side. NSS provides a complete open-source implementation of cryptographic libraries supporting Transport Layer Security (TLS) / Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and S/MIME.

Novato meteorite <=SEP=> The Novato meteorite is an ordinary chondrite which entered the earth's atmosphere and broke up at 19:44 Pacific time on 17 October 2012. The fireball created sonic booms and fragmented. The meteoroid was about 35 centimeters (14 in) across. The first fragment of the meteorite (N01) was recovered by Lisa Webber on 20 October after reading a story in the San Francisco Chronicle that described the NASA/CAMS meteor trajectory predicting a fall area in the North Bay.

Novella of Uriel <=SEP=> Novella Of Uriel is the debut full-length album by mathcore band Blood Has Been Shed. It was released in the United States on February 20, 2001, on Ferret Records.

OCEF <=SEP=> Overseas China Education Foundation (OCEF) is an independent, non-political, non-religious and non-profit charity organization, founded in October 1992 by a group of Chinese students and scholars in California. Formerly known as SOS China Education Fund (SOSCEF), OCEF changed to its current name and was registered in Texas in April 2001 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

ONE Campaign <=SEP=> The ONE Campaign is an international, nonpartisan, non-profit, advocacy and campaigning organisation that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support effective policies and programmes that are saving lives and improving futures.ONE was originally founded by a coalition of 11 non-profit humanitarian and advocacy organizations, including DATA, World Vision, Oxfam America, and Bread for the World, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

ObjectVision <=SEP=> ObjectVision was a forms-based programming language and environment for Windows 3.x developed by Borland. The latest version, 2.1, was released in 1992.An ObjectVision application is composed by forms designed in a graphic way that contains objects and events to provide interactivity. ObjectVision applications also can interact with databases using multiple engines, like Paradox and dBase.

Open64 <=SEP=> Open64 is a discontinued, free, open source, optimizing compiler for the Itanium and x86-64 microprocessor architectures. It derives from the SGI compilers for the MIPS R10000 processor, called MIPSPro. It was initially released in 2000 as GNU GPL software under the name Pro64. The following year, University of Delaware adopted the project and renamed the compiler to Open64. It now mostly serves as a research platform for compiler and computer architecture research groups.

OpenGrok <=SEP=> OpenGrok is a source code search and cross reference engine. It helps programmers to search, cross-reference and navigate source code trees.It can understand various program file formats and version control histories like Monotone, SCCS, RCS, CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git, Clearcase, Perforce and Bazaar.The name comes from the term grok, a jargon term used in computing to mean "profoundly understand". The term grok originated in a science fiction novel by Robert A.

OpenJDK <=SEP=> OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006. The implementation is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) with a linking exception. Were it not for the GPL linking exception, components that linked to the Java class library would be subject to the terms of the GPL license. OpenJDK is the official Java SE 7 reference implementation.

OpenOffice.org <=SEP=> OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, was an open-source office suite. It was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. Sun open-sourced the software in July 2000 as a competitor to Microsoft Office, releasing version 1.0 on 1 May 2002.

OpenSolaris <=SEP=> OpenSolaris (/ˈoʊpən sɵˈlɑrɨs/) was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software.

OpenStep <=SEP=> OpenStep was an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification for an object-oriented operating system, with the basic goal of offering a NeXTSTEP-like environment on a non-NeXTSTEP operating system. OpenStep was principally developed by NeXT with Sun Microsystems, to allow NeXTSTEP (like) development on Sun's operating systems, specifically Solaris.

Open Message Queue <=SEP=> Open Message Queue (OpenMQ or Open MQ) is an open sourcemessage-oriented middleware project by Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems) that implements the Java Message Service 2.0 API (JMS). It is the default JMS provider integrated into GlassFish.In addition to support for the JMS API, OpenMQ provides additional enterprise features including clustering for scalability and high availability, a C API, and a full JMX administration API.

Open Source Initiative <=SEP=> The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is an organization dedicated to promoting open-source software.The organization was founded in February 1998 by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, part of a group inspired by the Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product.

Oracle Application Express <=SEP=> Oracle Application Express (abbreviated APEX, previously named Oracle HTML DB) is a web-based software development environment that runs on an Oracle database. It is fully supported and comes standard (at no additional cost) with all Oracle Database editions and, starting with Oracle 11g, is installed by default as part of the core database install.APEX can be used to build complex web applications which can be used in most modern web browsers.

Oracle Application Server <=SEP=> The Oracle Application Server 10g (the "g" stands for grid) (short Oracle AS), consists of an integrated, standards-based software platform. It forms part of Oracle Corporation's Fusion Middleware technology stack. The heart of Oracle Application Server consists of Oracle HTTP Server (based on Apache HTTP Server) and OC4J (OracleAS Containers for Java EE) which deploys Java EE-based applications.

Oracle BI Publisher <=SEP=> Oracle XML Publisher (XMLP) is Oracle Corporation's latest reporting technology.  It was originally developed to solve the reporting problems faced by Oracle Applications. Osama Elkady from the Applications Technology Group and Tim Dexter from the Financials Group were the main drivers for the product. It was first released with Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 in 2003.

Oracle Beehive <=SEP=> Oracle Beehive is collaboration platform software developed by Oracle Corporation that combines email, team collaboration, instant messaging, and conferencing in a single solution. It can be deployed on-premises as licensed software or as software as a service (SaaS).

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition <=SEP=> Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, also termed OBI EE Plus, is Oracle Corporation's set of business intelligence tools consisting of former Siebel Systems business intelligence and Hyperion Solutions business intelligence offerings.The industry counterpart and main competitors of OBIEE are Microsoft BI, IBM Cognos, SAP AG Business Objects and SAS Institute Inc. The products currently leverage a common BI Server providing integration among the tools.

Oracle Complex MRO <=SEP=> Oracle Complex Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (Oracle cMRO) is both an aircraft maintenance application for transportation and defense operations and an MRO service application for aerospace and defense manufacturers. Oracle cMRO integrates service supply chain planning, scheduling, and fleet configuration management capabilities in a single, real-time information system.

Oracle Corporation <=SEP=> The Oracle Corporation is an American global computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company primarily specializes in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly its own brands of database management systems.

Oracle Data Mining <=SEP=> Oracle Data Mining (ODM) is an option of Oracle Corporation's Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Enterprise Edition (EE). It contains several data mining and data analysis algorithms for classification, prediction, regression, associations, feature selection, anomaly detection, feature extraction, and specialized analytics. It provides means for the creation, management and operational deployment of data mining models inside the database environment.

Oracle Database <=SEP=> Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply as Oracle) is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.Larry Ellison and his two friends and former co-workers, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, started a consultancy called Software Development Laboratories (SDL) in 1977. SDL developed the original version of the Oracle software.

Oracle Discoverer <=SEP=> Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ad hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment.  Oracle Corporation markets it as a business intelligence product.  It was originally a stand-alone product, however it has become a component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite, and renamed Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center <=SEP=> Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center (formerly Sun Ops Center) is a data center automation tool that simplifies discovery and management of physical and virtualized assets.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse <=SEP=> OEPE is the acronym for Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a set of Eclipse plugins to facilitate development of Java SE, Java EE, Web service, ORM, and Spring applications on Oracle WebLogic Server.

Oracle Grid Engine <=SEP=> Oracle Grid Engine, previously known as Sun Grid Engine (SGE), CODINE (Computing in Distributed Networked Environments) or GRD (Global Resource Director), was a grid computing computer cluster software system (otherwise known as batch-queuing system), acquired as part of a purchase of Terraspring, then improved and supported by Sun Microsystems and later Oracle.

Oracle Linux <=SEP=> Oracle Linux, formerly known as Oracle Enterprise Linux, is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), repackaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) since late 2006.Oracle Linux can be downloaded through Oracle's E-delivery service or from a variety of mirror sites, and can be deployed and distributed without cost.

Oracle Media Objects <=SEP=> Oracle Media Objects, formerly Oracle Card, was a multi-media software development tool for developing multi-media applications, with similar functionality and appearance to Apple Computer' HyperCard.In the early days of HyperCard at least two alternative tools were created outside of Apple, Spinnaker's Plus and SuperCard. Plus was very much like HyperCard, with the notable distinction of being cross-platform, operating on both Mac OS and Windows.

Oracle NoSQL Database <=SEP=> Oracle NoSQL Database is a NoSQL-type distributed key-value database by Oracle Corporation.It provides transactional semantics for data manipulation, horizontal scalability, and simple administration and monitoring.Oracle NoSQL Database provides a very simple data model to the application developer. Each row is identified by a unique key, and also has a value, of arbitrary length, which is interpreted by the application.

Oracle SQL Developer <=SEP=> In computing, Oracle SQL Developer (internally often: "sqldeveloper") is an Integrated development environment (IDE) for working with SQL in Oracle databases. Oracle Corporation  provides this product free; it uses the Java Development Kit.

Oracle Solaris Studio <=SEP=> The Oracle Solaris Studio, formerly named Sun Studio, Sun WorkShop, Forte Developer, and SunPro Compilers, is a compiler suite which is Oracle Corporation's flagship software development product for the operating systems Solaris and Linux.

Oracle Spatial and Graph <=SEP=> Oracle Spatial and Graph, formerly Oracle Spatial, forms a separately-licensed option component of the Oracle Database. The spatial features in Oracle Spatial and Graph aid users in managing geographic and location-data in a native type within an Oracle database, potentially supporting a wide range of applications — from automated mapping/facilities-management and geographic information systems (GIS), to wireless location services and location-enabled e-business.

Oracle VDI <=SEP=> Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) software is desktop virtualization product that provides desktop virtualization to replace personal computers with virtual machines (VMs) on a server.

Oracle VM Server for SPARC <=SEP=> Logical Domains (LDoms or LDOM) is the server virtualization and partitioning technology from Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system when running on SPARC V9. It was released in April 2007. Since Oracle Corporation completed the acquisition of Sun in January 2010, the product has been re-branded as Oracle VM Server for SPARC from version 2.0 onwards.Each domain is a full virtual machine with a reconfigurable subset of hardware resources.

Oracle WebLogic Server <=SEP=> Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server currently developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle acquired WebLogic Server when it purchased BEA Systems in 2008.

Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server <=SEP=> The Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server (OiWPS), formerly known as Sun Java System Web Proxy Server (SJSWPS), is a proxy server software developed by Sun Microsystems (since 2010, Oracle Corporation).

Oracle iPlanet Web Server <=SEP=> Oracle iPlanet Web Server (OiWS) is a web server designed for medium and large business applications. Oracle iPlanet Web Server builds on the earlier Sun Java System Web Server, Sun ONE Web Server, iPlanet Web Server, and Netscape Enterprise Server products.Oracle iPlanet Web Server is available on Solaris, Windows, HP-UX, AIX, GNU/Linux, supports JSP and Java Servlet technologies, PHP, NSAPI, CGI, and ColdFusion.

Packet Tracer <=SEP=> Cisco Packet Tracer is a network simulation program that allows students to experiment with network behavior and ask “what if” questions. As an integral part of the Networking Academy comprehensive learning experience, Packet Tracer provides simulation, visualization, authoring, assessment, and collaboration capabilities and facilitates the teaching and learning of complex technology concepts.

Party Mix (video game) <=SEP=> Five games in one, Party Mix is a collection title developed in 1983 by Starpath for the Starpath Supercharger add-on to the Atari 2600 console. Being one of the first party video games, it became notable for its inventive one-on-one and two-on-two split-screen multiplayer gameplay types.The anthology consists of the following titles: Bop a Buggy Tug of War Wizard's Keep Down on the Line Handcar

People's Health Movement <=SEP=> People's Health Movement (PHM) is a global network of grassroots health activists, civil society organizations and academic institutions particularly from developing countries. PHM currently has bases in more than 70 countries that include both individuals and well-established circles with their own governance structures.

PeopleTools <=SEP=> PeopleTools is the proprietary software development environment that was created by the PeopleSoft Corporation.The PeopleTools consist of Application Designer, Application Engine, Data Mover, PeopleCode and various other developer tools.

Persistence Software <=SEP=> Persistence Software was an American software company that operated from 1991 to 2004. Persistence developed software for Object-relational mapping. The company was founded in 1991 by Derek Henninger, Christopher Keene and Richard Jensen in San Mateo, California, working with Stanford Professors Gio Wiederhold and Arthur M Keller, who was the Chief Technical Advisor.  In 1999, Persistence Software went public on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PRSW.

Phaser Patrol <=SEP=> Phaser Patrol is the first numbered release by Starpath Corporation for the Atari 2600.  This game simulates a space flight in which you must pilot your ship to destroy the Dracon invaders.

Plant with Purpose <=SEP=> Plant With Purpose (formerly known as Floresta) is a Christian nonprofit organization that works in developing countries around the world with the goal of improving the quality of the lives of people living in extreme rural poverty. Plant With Purpose uses a transformational development approach that brings together environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal.

Population Council <=SEP=> The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The Council conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research and helps build research capacities in developing countries. One-third of its research relates to HIV and AIDS; its other major program areas are reproductive health and poverty, youth, and gender. It held the license for Norplant contraceptive implant, and now holds the license for Mirena intrauterine system.

Portal Software <=SEP=> See also: Wikipedia's Software portal, or Category:Portal softwarePortal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. Towards the end of the 1980s, the company offered FTP.During this time, the company developed its own account management software.

Product Red <=SEP=> Product Red, styled as (PRODUCT)RED, is a licensed brand that seeks to engage the private sector in raising awareness and funds to help eliminate HIV/AIDS in Africa. It is licensed to partner companies including Nike, American Express (UK), Apple Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, Starbucks, Converse, Electronic Arts, Head, Bugaboo, Penguin Classics (UK & International), Gap, Armani, Hallmark (US), SAP and Beats Electronics (Beats by Dr. Dre).

Project Grizzly (software) <=SEP=> Grizzly NIO framework has been designed to help developers to take advantage of the Java™ NIO API. Grizzly's goal is to help developers to build scalable and robust servers using NIO as well as offering extended framework components: Web Framework (HTTP/S), WebSocket, Comet.

Project Jersey <=SEP=> Jersey RESTful Web Services framework is an open source, production quality framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation.

Project Metro <=SEP=> Metro is a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack and is a part of the GlassFish Application Server. Metro incorporates JAXB 2.x RI and JAX-WS 2.x Web services standards, along with other XML-related Java standards.

Project Phobos <=SEP=> Project Phobos is a lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment running on the Java platform.These include a fully featured debugger; wizards to help you get started faster; a palette of JmakiAjax widgets that can be dropped on a page and the ability to generate a standard web application for deployment on any servlet container or Java EE application server.Currently, the primary language supported by Phobos is JavaScript.

Project Shoal (software) <=SEP=> Project Shoal is a java based scalable dynamic clustering framework that provides infrastructure to build fault tolerance, reliability and availability and can be plugged into the GlassFish Application Server.The framework can be plugged into any product needing clustering and related distributed systems capabilities without tightly binding to a specific communications infrastructure. The framework can be plugged in as an in-process component.

Proofpoint Systems, Inc <=SEP=> Proofpoint Systems, Inc. is a global provider of software, systems, and programs that support individual and organizational performance. Based in Silicon Valley -- Los Altos, California—and founded in 2003 by Dr. Jim Hill, Proofpoint Systems developed the first browser-based performance analysis software systems.

Protestant Reich Church <=SEP=> The Protestant Reich Church, officially The German Evangelical Church (German: Deutsche Evangelische Kirche) and colloquially Reichskirche, was a unified state church that espoused a single doctrine compatible with National Socialism. The Protestant opposition to Nazism established a rival  German Evangelical Church, called the Confessing Church, an umbrella of independent regional churches.

Proxecto Trasno <=SEP=> The Proxecto Trasno is an open community dedicated to localise open-source software to Galician language. Since it was founded at the end of the 1999, its volunteers have been engaged in the Galician translation of the main FLOSS projects, from desktop environments to Linux distributions and in creating spell-checkers or developing localization tools.Since 2009, it has been legally protected by the non-profit association Asociación Cultural Proxecto Trasno, founded by volunteers of the project.

Qi hardware <=SEP=> Qi hardware is a project which produces copyleft hardware, in an attempt to apply the Free Software Foundation's GNU GPL concept of copylefting software to the hardware layer. The project is both a community of popular open hardware websites and a company, co-founded by Wolfgang Spraul and Yi Zhang, that makes hardware products. Originally formed from the ashes of the Openmoko project, several key members formed Qi Hardware Inc and Sharism At Work Ltd.

Quest Development <=SEP=> Quest Development Corporation was a small, privately held software development company founded by serial entrepreneur Kevin Azzouz in San Luis Obispo, California that primarily developed backup and storage management software which was licensed as The Norton Backup to Symantec Corporation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Quest Software <=SEP=> Quest Software, now part of Dell Software a division of Dell Inc., was a software manufacturer headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.  Founded in 1987, Quest developed and supported software used in a variety of industries to simplify IT management. Quest Software was acquired by Dell, announced on July 2, 2012, for $2.36 billion.The company was known for TOAD, a product used by database professionals, in addition to other products for IT development, management, monitoring and protection.

QuickBooks <=SEP=> QuickBooks is an accounting software package developed and marketed by Intuit. Quickbooks products are geared mainly toward small and medium-sized businesses and offer on-premises accounting applications as well as cloud based versions that accept business payments, manage and pay bills, and payroll functions.

Quicken <=SEP=> Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Intuit, Inc.Different (and incompatible) versions of Quicken run on Windows and Macintosh systems.  Previous versions ran on DOS. There are several versions of Quicken for Windows, including Quicken Starter, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Rental Property Manager, Quicken Premier, and Quicken Home & Business, as well as Quicken for Mac.

REVIVAL Mobile Management Suite <=SEP=> REVIVAL Mobile Management Suite is a mobile device management tool developed and provided by The Institution.

REX OS <=SEP=> The REX Operating System (Real-Time Executive Operating System) is an RTOS developed by Qualcomm for the ARM-based mobile phone Dual-Mode Subscriber Station (DMSS) or Advanced Mode Subscriber Software (AMSS) development.

Recreational Software Advisory Council <=SEP=> The Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC) was an independent, non-profit organization founded in the USA in 1994 by the Software Publishers Association as well as six other industry leaders in response to video game controversy and threats of government regulation. The goal of the council was to provide objective content ratings for computer games, similar to the earlier formed Videogame Rating Council (VRC) and later Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).

Redcort Software <=SEP=> Redcort Software is an American software company that develops time and attendance software for both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers. Redcort Software is headquartered in Fresno, California, in the middle of California's central San Joaquin Valley.

RenderX <=SEP=> RenderX, Inc is a commercial software development company that provides standards-based software products, used for typeset-quality electronic and print output of business content. RenderX develops products that convert XML content into printable formats such as PDF, PostScript and AFP.

Rhonda Software <=SEP=> Rhonda Software is a software development company. The company is privately held, founded in 1995 in Vladivostok, Russia.

Run for Courage <=SEP=> Run for Courage is a nonprofit organization that combats human trafficking. The organization is based in Sacramento, California and raises money for human trafficking victims and their families. Ashlie Bryant is the executive director of Run for Courage. The founder was Vicki Zito, whose daughter was abducted at age seventeen and sexually trafficked in the East Bay. The organization was founded in 2009 and holds a charity run annually, raising more than $550,000 within its first four years.

Sahana Software Foundation <=SEP=> Sahana Software Foundation is a Los Angeles, CA-based non-profit organization founded to promote the use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) for disaster and emergency management.

Sambhavami Foundation <=SEP=> Sambhavami Foundation is a social entrepreneurial organization (a non-profit organization) in India devoted to the cause of generating employment opportunities by providing the right platform to the people in the bottom of the economic pyramid and helping them convert their ideas into enterprise. Empowering people to the extent of self-sustainability is the prime objective.Two of the major problems in India today are poverty and unemployment.

Scalable Network Technologies <=SEP=> Scalable Network Technologies is an enterprise that develops network simulation technology to deliver communications design and analysis tools and cyber training systems that are used by governmental and military organizations, educational institutions, and commercial enterprises around the world.

Securly <=SEP=> Securly provides cloud-based web filtering for schools and allows information technology (IT) administrators and parents to manage screen time for devices. The company is a venture-backed  K-12 service provider based in Silicon Valley and was founded in 2012 by former McAfee network engineers Vinay Mahadlk  and Bharath Madhusudan.

Silicon Valley <=SEP=> Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is located in the part of the U.S. state of California known as Northern California. It is home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, as well as thousands of tech startup companies. The word "valley" refers to the Santa Clara Valley where the region has traditionally been centered, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns.

Silk Central <=SEP=> Silk Central is a test management software developed by Borland with integrated framework that is built to improve productivity, traceability, and visibility for all types of software testing. SilkCentral Test Manager is an open software test management solution that supports both responsive and traditional development projects.

Sleepycat Software <=SEP=> Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the software company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006.Berkeley DB is freely-licensed database software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley for 4.4BSD Unix. Developers from that project founded Sleepycat in 1996 to provide commercial support after a request by Netscape to provide new features in the software.

Small business software <=SEP=> Small business software has been for many years any software that a small business owner could appropriate to get jobs done. Over the past twenty years, however, the most pressing issue for small businesses has been to organize their financial records mostly due to government requirements in tax reporting.

Social web <=SEP=> The social web is a set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web. The Social web encompasses how websites and software are designed and developed in order to support and foster social interaction. These online social interactions form the basis of much online activity including online shopping, education, gaming and social networking websites. The social aspect of Web 2.0 communication has been to facilitate interaction between people with similar tastes.

Software engineering <=SEP=> Software engineering is the study and an application of  engineering to the design, development, and maintenance of software.Typical formal definitions of software engineering are: "research, design, develop, and test operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for medical, industrial, military, communications, aerospace, business, scientific, and general computing applications." "the systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software"; "the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software"; "an engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production"; and "the establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to economically obtain software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines."↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑

Solaris Containers <=SEP=> Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005.It is present in newer OpenSolaris based distributions, such as OpenIndiana, SmartOS and OmniOS, as well as in the official Oracle Solaris 11 release.A Solaris Container is the combination of system resource controls and the boundary separation provided by zones.

Solidcore Systems <=SEP=> Solidcore Systems, Inc. was a software company based in Cupertino, California, that developed software to detect and prevent unwanted change. It was acquired by McAfee in June 2009.Its products provide change management auditing, configuration control, PCI compliance and system lockdown used by enterprise IT organizations worldwide.Solidcore competitors in change detection and configuration control domain include Lumension, Tripwire, Cimcor, Bladelogic and Ionx.

Speakeasy (computational environment) <=SEP=> Speakeasy is a numerical computing interactive environment also featuring an interpreted programming language. It was initially developed for internal use at the Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory by the theoretical physicist Stanley Cohen. He eventually founded Speakeasy Computing Corporation to make the program available commercially.Speakeasy is a very long-lasting numerical package.

Spectrasonics <=SEP=> Spectrasonics is a music software company based in California, United States. Founded in 1994 by Eric Persing, the company originally produced sample libraries and then became one of the first companies to create software instruments in 2002 Their flagship product is Omnisphere, an extensive software synthesizer released in 2008. Other notable products include Stylus and Trilian.

Spectrum Software <=SEP=> Spectrum Software is a software company based in California, whose main focus is electrical simulation and analysis tools, most notably the circuit simulator Micro-Cap. It was founded in February 1980 by Andy Thompson. Initially, the company concentrated on providing software for Apple II systems.One of the earliest products was Logic Designer and Simulator. Released in June 1980, this product was the first integrated circuit editor and logic simulation system available for personal computers.

Spirals (album) <=SEP=> Spirals is the second album by mathcore band Blood Has Been Shed. The album is known for its more polished production style than their debut I Dwell on Thoughts of You and their follow up effort Novella of Uriel which have a rawer, more muddied sound. The album was released March 11, 2003, and is their third full-length album. This is also the last record recorded with Blood Has Been Shed before Justin Foley also joined Killswitch Engage, Howard Jones at this point was already a member.

Standards organization <=SEP=> A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is any organization whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise producing technical standards that are intended to address the needs of some relatively wide base of affected adopters.Most standards are voluntary in the sense that they are offered for adoption by people or industry without being mandated in law.

StarOffice <=SEP=> StarOffice, known briefly as Oracle Open Office before being discontinued in 2011, was a proprietary office suite. It originated in 1985 as StarWriter by StarDivision, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Sun was itself acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010.StarOffice supports the OpenOffice.org XML file format, as well as the OpenDocument standard, and can generate PDF and Flash formats.

StarTeam <=SEP=> StarTeam is a revision control system used in software development, especially when a project involves multiple teams in different locations. StarTeam is an SCM and SDLC software application, created by Starbase Corporation,  which was acquired by Borland in January 2003  which was acquired by Micro Focus meanwhile.

Star Wars: Battlefront <=SEP=> Star Wars: Battlefront is a series of first- and third-person shooter video games based on the Star Wars films by George Lucas. Originally published by LucasArts beginning in 2004, EA DICE has taken over the franchise following The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of LucasArts.

Star Wars: Battlefront (2004 video game) <=SEP=> Star Wars: Battlefront is a 2004 first- and third-person shooter video game based on the Star Wars film franchise. Developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts, it is the first game in the Star Wars: Battlefront series. It was released on September 21, 2004 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows to coincide the release of the Star Wars Trilogy DVD set.

Star Wars: Battlefront II <=SEP=> Star Wars: Battlefront II is a 2005 first- and third-person shooter video game based on the Star Wars film franchise. Developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts it is a sequel to 2004's Star Wars: Battlefront and the second game in the Battlefront series. The game was released in PAL regions on October 31, 2005 on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox platforms, and in North America on November 1 of the same year.

Star Wars: The Best of PC <=SEP=> Star Wars: The Best of PC is a compilation of five Star Wars games that have been released for Windows over the previous five years. It was released in North America on November 21, 2006 and in Europe on November 24, 2006.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002 video game) <=SEP=> Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts. Star Wars: The Clone Wars was released for the Nintendo GameCube on October 28, 2002, the PlayStation 2 on December 10, 2002, and the Xbox on April 22, 2003.This game mostly consists of vehicular combat, although there are a few times on certain missions where the player controls Anakin Skywalker and Mace Windu.

Superfish <=SEP=> Superfish is an advertising company that develops various advertising-supported software products based on a visual search engine. The company is based in Palo Alto, California. It was founded in Israel in 2006 and has been regarded as part of the country's "Download Valley" cluster of adware companies. Superfish's software has been described as malware or adware by several sources.

Sutter's Mill meteorite <=SEP=> The Sutter's Mill meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite which entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke up at about 07:51 Pacific time on April 22, 2012. The name comes from the Sutter's Mill, the California Gold Rush site near which some pieces were recovered. This was the largest meteoroid impact over land since asteroid 2008 TC3.

Sword of Saros <=SEP=> Sword of Saros was a video game available only for the Atari 2600 Starpath Supercharger. This game was only available via mail order and very few copies were made. The game was programmed by Jon Leupp.The game was a one player adventure game put on the Starpath cassette tape.Work your way through the evil wizard's maze-like dungeon to find the pieces of the Sword of Saros. When you've found all of the pieces, you can exit the dungeon, ending the game.

TVPaint <=SEP=> TVPaint Animation (also known as Tecsoft Video Paint Animation, Tecsoft Video Paint, TVPaint, TVP Animation, Mirage and Newtek Aura) is a 2D bitmap-based digital animation software package, developed and distributed by TVPaint Developpement, France.It has been developed for the Amiga platform and then ported to the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms and is currently at version 11.

Tax compliance software <=SEP=> Tax compliance software is software that ensures tax compliance for income tax, corporate tax, VAT, service tax, customs, sales tax, use tax, or other taxes its users may be required to pay. The software automatically calculates a user's tax liabilities to the government, keeps track of all transactions (in case of indirect taxes), keeps track of eligible tax credits, etc. The software can also generate forms or filings needed for tax compliance.

Tcov <=SEP=> Tcov is a source code coverage analysis and statement-by-statement profiling tool for software written in Fortran, C and C++. Tcov generates exact counts of the number of times each statement in a program is executed and annotates source code to add instrumentation. It is a standard utility, provided free of cost with Sun Studio software under Sun Studio product license.The tcov utility gives information on how often a program executes segments of code.

TeachAIDS <=SEP=> TeachAIDS (pronounced /ˌtiːtʃˈeɪdz/) is a nonprofit social enterprise that develops global HIV prevention education technology products, based on an approach invented through research at Stanford University.The TeachAIDS software has been cited as a model health intervention. Since the materials bypass issues of stigma, they allow HIV prevention education to be provided to communities where it has previously not been allowed.

Techno Kitten Adventure <=SEP=> Techno Kitten Adventure is a side-scrolling video game developed by 21st Street Games and published by creative design studio Elite Gudz for the iOS App Store, Xbox Live Indie Games market, Android Market and Windows Phone market. In the game, players control a flying kitten that must avoid obstacles and distractions timed to techno music. The game was first released on Xbox Live Indie Games  on September 6, 2010 by Nick Kinkade (xMonox).

Tekla Labs <=SEP=> Tekla Labs (TeklaLabs.org) is a non-profit organization of researchers, educators and hobbyists committed to developing do it yourself (DIY) science infrastructure. Tekla Labs objective is to "enable scientists to construct their own high quality lab equipment using readily available, off the shelf items."  The organization was founded in 2010 in Berkeley, California by postdoctoral and graduate student researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF.

TeraText <=SEP=> TeraText is a non-relational text database. It is used to store and search through large amounts of textual data. It was originally developed at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.TeraText operation utilises a heavy client server model. A basic setup can consist of a Content Server (CS), Advanced Search Interface, Application Server (AS), Security Server (SLS) and a Boot Server (boots).Individual servers communicate with each other using the standard Z39.50 protocol.

TextCrypt <=SEP=> TextCrypt is an encryption software product produced by SubRosaSoft.com Inc. It uses industry standard Rijndael AES-128 encryption to protect user-entered text data.  It is cross-platform software and can be run natively on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux with the data encrypted being freely passable between all three operating system versions.  Multiple languages are supported.Since its release, TextCrypt has received a number of awards from software download sites.

The All-Seeing Eye <=SEP=> The All-Seeing Eye, known to its community of users as ASE, was a game server browser designed by Finnish company UDP Soft. It helped online gamers find game servers. ASE took two years to develop and was introduced as shareware on June 15, 2001.Despite UDP Soft lacking the marketing power of GameSpy, ASE's popularity grew swiftly and steadily. It was sold to Yahoo! for an undisclosed sum in September 2004.

The Dark Knight (video game) <=SEP=> The Dark Knight is a cancelled action video game loosely based on the film of the same name. The game was unofficially announced in the summer of 2007 to be developed by Pandemic Studios as an open world Batman game.The game was confirmed, albeit unofficially, on July 17, 2008 by actor Gary Oldman during an interview with G4's Kristin Adams.

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest <=SEP=> The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an action game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It is derived from the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and borrows many gameplay mechanics from Pandemic's Star Wars: Battlefront games.

The Rebuilding Alliance <=SEP=> Rebuilding Alliance (RA) is a non-profit organization based in Palo Alto, California,  founded by  electrical engineer Donna Baranski-Walker in 2003, that rebuilds homes and communities in regions of war and occupation. It developed from the Global Campaign to rebuild Palestinian Homes Organization, which had been dissolved a year earlier.Baransky-Walker who also holds an M.S.

The Saboteur <=SEP=> The Saboteur is an open world third person action-adventure video game set during World War II in German-occupied France. It was published by Electronic Arts and was the final game developed by Pandemic Studios.

The Saragossa Manuscript (film) <=SEP=> The Saragossa Manuscript (Polish: Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, "The Manuscript found in Zaragoza") is a 1965 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has, based on the 1815 novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements.

The Way International <=SEP=> The Way International is a nontrinitarian non-denominational Christian ministry based in New Knoxville, Ohio, with home fellowships located in the United States as well as other countries. It was founded by Victor Paul Wierwille in 1942 as a radio program, and became The Chimes Hour Youth Caravan in 1947, and The Way, Inc., in 1955.

Thea Realm Fighters <=SEP=> Thea Realm Fighters was an Atari Jaguar game scheduled for Q3 1995 release. This fighting game by High Voltage Software was one of the Mortal Kombat rip offs developed in response to Mortal Kombat popularity. Even though the game was never released, several people have played the working demo of the game at some point and images and video of several builds have been posted online. There are no known copies available publicly and the game has not been emulated.

TimesTen <=SEP=> TimesTen is an in-memory, relational database management system with persistence and recoverability. Originally designed and implemented at Hewlett-Packard labs in Palo Alto, California, TimesTen was spun out into a separate startup in 1996 and acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2005.All data within a TimesTen database is located in physical memory (RAM), which means no disk I/O is required for any data operation.

TopLink <=SEP=> In computing, TopLink is an object-relational mapping (ORM) package for Java developers. It provides a framework for storing Java objects in a relational database or for converting Java objects to XML documents.TopLink Essentials  is a reference implementation of the EJB 3.0  Java Persistence API (JPA) and a product of Oracle.

Touch Typist Typing Tutor <=SEP=> Touch Typist Typing Tutor is developed by Sector Software. The latest release is version 1.27 which was released in  December 2008 for Microsoft Windows based computers.Touch Typist typing tutor is the earliest example of typing tutor software currently still on sale. The software was written and released for sale in 1985 on the Sinclair QL computer. Its first public sale was at The ZX Microfair in 1985.

Trade Empires <=SEP=> Trade Empires is a PC game developed by Frog City Software in San Francisco and published by Eidos Interactive. During development its working title was The Silk Road; however, this was changed by Eidos Interactive as they were concerned about the title being too highbrow.Trade Empires is a pausable real-time strategy game about building a merchant empire.

Transaction Processing Performance Council <=SEP=> Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. TPC benchmarks are used in evaluating the performance of computer systems; the results are published on the TPC web site.

Tropico 2: Pirate Cove <=SEP=> Tropico 2: Pirate Cove is the 2003 sequel to the computer game Tropico.  Tropico 2 was developed by Frog City Software and published by Gathering of Developers for Windows and Mac OS X PCs.

TurboCASH <=SEP=> TurboCASH is a free software accounting software package, developed by a project team headed by Philip Copeman, a South African. It has been continuously developed since April 1985, and was released under the GNU General Public License in July 2003.The biggest TurboCASH communities are found in South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Canada and Australia.

TurboTax <=SEP=> TurboTax is an American tax preparation software package developed by Michael A. Chipman of Chipsoft in the mid-1980s. Intuit acquired Chipsoft, based in San Diego, in 1993. Chipsoft, now known as Intuit Consumer Tax Group, is still based in San Diego, having moved into a new office complex in 2007. Intuit Corporation is headquartered in Mountain View, California.TurboTax for the Mac was originally named MacinTax, and was developed by SoftView.

Turbo Assembler <=SEP=> Turbo Assembler (TASM) is an assembler package developed by Borland which runs on and produces code for 16- or 32-bit x86 MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows. It can be used with Borland's high-level language compilers, such as Turbo Pascal, Turbo Basic, Turbo C and Turbo C++. The Turbo Assembler package is bundled with the Turbo Linker, and is interoperable with the Turbo Debugger. TASM can assemble MASM source using its MASM mode and has an ideal mode with a few enhancements.

Turbo C++ <=SEP=> Turbo C++ was a C++ compiler and integrated development environment and computer language  originally from Borland.  Most recently it was distributed by Embarcadero Technologies, which acquired all of Borland's compiler tools with the purchase of its CodeGear division in 2008. The original Turbo C++ product line was put on hold after 1994 and was revived in 2006 as an introductory-level IDE, essentially a stripped-down version of their flagship C++Builder.

Turbo Delphi <=SEP=> Turbo Delphi was an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), created by CodeGear, which was targeted towards student, amateur, individual professionals, and hobbyist programmers.  It used the Delphi programming language, which is a dialect of Pascal.Turbo Delphi was announced on August 8, 2006.

Turbo Pascal <=SEP=> Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment (IDE) for the Pascal programming language running  on CP/M, CP/M-86, and DOS, developed by Borland under Philippe Kahn's leadership. From version 6 both a lower-priced Turbo Pascal and more expensive Borland Pascal were produced; Borland Pascal had more libraries and standard library source code.

Turbo Vision <=SEP=> Turbo Vision is a DOS-based character-mode text user interface (TUI) framework developed around 1990 by Borland for Pascal, and C++. Later it was deprecated in favor of Object Windows Library for the then-increasingly important Win16 API.The Turbo Vision framework was included with Borland Pascal, Turbo Pascal, and Borland C++. It was used by Borland itself to write the integrated development environments (IDE) for these programming languages.

Tuxedo (software) <=SEP=> Tuxedo (Transactions for Unix, Extended for Distributed Operations) is a middleware platform used to manage distributed transaction processing in distributed computing environments. Tuxedo is a transaction processing system or transaction-oriented middleware, or enterprise application server for a variety of systems and programming languages.Developed by AT&T in the 1980s, it became a software product of Oracle Corporation in 2008 when they acquired BEA Systems.

Twelve Nights in Hollywood <=SEP=> Twelve Nights In Hollywood is a 2009 live album by the American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, recorded at the Crescendo Club in Hollywood, Los Angeles over ten nights in May 1961, and a subsequent pair of performances in June 1962.In 1961 Fitzgerald released an album of her live performances at the Crescendo, Ella in Hollywood, this album repeats none of those tracks, or the subsequent two singles that resulted from her 1962 stay, "Ol' Man Mose" and "Bill Bailey".

Uniface (company) <=SEP=> Uniface is a privately held software development company, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It develops the Uniface programming language. The company has around 140 employees and 1600 customers. Telmex, Kawasaki, Airbus or FedEx are Uniface’s customers. Uniface was bought by Compuware on 1994. After 20 years the company has been sold to Marlin Equity Partners.

Universal Alliance <=SEP=> The Universal Alliance (French: Alliance universelle), formerly known as Universal Christian Church (Église chrétienne universelle) and followers as Christ's Witnesses (Témoins du Christ), is a Christian-oriented new religious movement founded in France in 1952 by Georges Roux, a former postman in the Vaucluse department.

V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack <=SEP=> V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack is a WiiWare blackjack video game developed by High Voltage Software. It was a launch title for the North American debut of the service on May 12, 2008.The game features the player's alter ego of "Mr Paradise" playing against the computer or up to three other human opponents to score the most cash at the table.

VirtualBox <=SEP=> Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is a hypervisor for x86 computers from Oracle Corporation. Developed initially by Innotek GmbH, it was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010.VirtualBox may be installed on a number of host operating systems, including: Linux, OS X, Windows Vista, Solaris, and OpenSolaris.

VisualVM <=SEP=> VisualVM is a tool that provides a visual interface for viewing detailed information about Java applications while they are running on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). VisualVM organizes JVM data that is retrieved by the Java Development Kit (JDK) tools and presents the information in a way that allows data on multiple Java applications to be quickly viewed—both local applications and applications that are running on remote hosts.

Voddler <=SEP=> Voddler is a Stockholm, Sweden-based provider of a video-on-demand (VOD) platform and a streaming technology for over-the-top (OTT) streaming on the public Internet. In Scandinavia, Voddler is primarily known for the commercial VOD-service Voddler, which was launched in 2009. As a company, Voddler was founded in 2005 and developed its own streaming solution, called Vnet.

Voldemort (distributed data store) <=SEP=> Voldemort is a distributed data store that is designed as a key-value store used by LinkedIn for high-scalability storage. It is named after the fictional Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort. Voldemort is still under development. It is neither an object database, nor a relational database.

WebAssist <=SEP=> WebAssist.com corporation is a U.S. based software company that develops, licenses and supports a variety of web related software products for Adobe Dreamweaver. Headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, the company’s core focus has been the creation of Dreamweaver extensions for web development.While WebAssist primarily develops Dreamweaver extensions, the company has also built Microsoft Expression Web add-ons.

WebScaleSQL <=SEP=> WebScaleSQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) created as a software branch of the production-ready community releases of MySQL.

Webcam Social Shopper <=SEP=> The Webcam Social Shopper, often referred to as virtual dressing room software, debuted online in June 2009 and was created by Los Angeles-based software company, Zugara.Cited initially as an "Augmented Reality Dressing Room", The Webcam Social Shopper allows online shoppers to use a webcam to visualize virtual garments on themselves while shopping online.

Westcoast Songwriter's Conference <=SEP=> The Westcoast Songwriter's Conference is an annual conference hosted by the Westcoast Songwriter's organization. West Coast Songwriters is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization founded in 1979. It has been headed by executive director Ian Crombie since 1988. The annual conference offers educational classes on songwriting techniques, live performance skills, navigating contracts and the legal environment of the music and performance industry.

Wheelchair Foundation <=SEP=> The Wheelchair Foundation (WF) is a non-profit organization founded in June 2000 by real estate developer Ken Behring, and based in Danville, California. The foundation partners with donors (individuals, groups and companies) to provide wheelchairs to people who need them but can not afford them, mostly in developing nations.

White Stag Leadership Development Program <=SEP=> The White Stag Leadership Development Program, founded in 1958, is a summer camp for youth 11-18 led by two California-based non-profits that sponsor leadership development activities. The teen youth staff of the two programs develop and produce several week-long leadership summer camps every year for several hundred youth from Central and Northern California and a few youth from other states and countries.

Wickr Foundation <=SEP=> The Wickr Foundation, founded in May of 2015, is a non-profit organization founded by Nico Sell, former CEO of Wickr Inc, using the technology as the for-profit business of the same name. The foundation is dedicated to providing free and secure messaging services to groups including children, political dissidents, human rights activists, and journalists. Sell stepped down as CEO of Wickr Inc.

Wikimedia Foundation <=SEP=> The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, that operates many wikis. The foundation is mostly known for hosting Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia, as well as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, WikiData, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Incubator, and Meta-Wiki.

Willow Garage <=SEP=> Willow Garage is a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. The company is probably best known for its open source software suite ROS (Robot Operating System), which has been rapidly and widely becoming a common, standard tool among robotics researchers and industry, since its initial release in 2007.

Workfront <=SEP=> Workfront is a Lehi, Utah-based software company that develops web-based work management and project management software that features enterprise work management, issue tracking, document management time tracking and portfolio management. The company was founded in 2001 by Scott Johnson. Eric Morgan has been Workfront's CEO since 2011.

X2Engine <=SEP=> X2Engine (also known as X2CRM) is a web application developed by software company X2Engine located in Santa Cruz, California and founded by software entrepreneur John Roberts. X2Engine is Customer Relationship Management application designed for Sales, Marketing and Customer Service use. It also includes a custom module developer studio and a workflow engine. As of January 2015, X2Engine has been installed on more the 14,000 servers across 160 countries.

XEP (software) <=SEP=> XEP is a commercial XSL-FO layout engine written in Java mainly used to convert XML to PDF. XEP is proprietary software by RenderX.

YUI Library <=SEP=> The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) is a discontinued open-source JavaScript library for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML, and DOM scripting. YUI includes several core CSS resources. It is available under a BSD License.Development on YUI began in 2005 and Yahoo! properties such as My Yahoo! and the Yahoo! front page began using YUI in the summer of that year. YUI was released for public use in February 2006.

YUI Rich Text Editor <=SEP=> YUI Rich Text Editor is a project developed by Yahoo! as a part of the YUI Library for an online rich-text editor that replaces a standard HTML textarea. It allows for drag and drop inclusion and sizing of images, text coloring, realignment, fonts, italic and bold text. The YUI rich text editor uses a plug in architecture and it is skinnable along with the rest of the YUI.

Yahoo! Calendar <=SEP=> Yahoo Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo!. It can read calendar feeds and events syndicated from sites that make use of the published Yahoo calendar programming interfaces. While users are not required to have a Yahoo Mail account, they are required to have a Yahoo ID in order to use the software. It is one of the largest online calendar providers and serves millions of users.

Yahoo! Mail <=SEP=> Yahoo Mail is a free email service (except for Yahoo Mail Business Email Plans) offered by the American company Yahoo!. It was launched in 1997, and, according to comScore, Yahoo Mail was the third-largest web-based email service with 281 million users as of December 2011.As many as three web interfaces were available at any given date. The traditional "Yahoo Mail Classic" preserved the availability of their original 1997 interface until July 2013 in North America.

Yahoo! Messenger <=SEP=> Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated YM) is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo. Yahoo Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo services, such as Yahoo Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email.

Yahoo! Music Jukebox <=SEP=> Yahoo! Music Jukebox, formerly known as Yahoo! Music engine, was a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005.  Its appearance was vaguely similar to Musicmatch Jukebox, related to the fact that Musicmatch, which developed the Jukebox, was purchased by Yahoo! in 2004.

Yahoo! Music Radio <=SEP=> Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast) was an Internet radio service offered by Clear Channel Communications' iHeartRadio through Yahoo! Music. The service, formerly offered by LAUNCH Media, and originally developed by Todd Beaupré and Jeff Boulter, debuted on November 11, 1999, and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2001. Previously, LAUNCHcast combined with CBS Radio beginning in 2009, then iHeartRadio in 2012. The service closed in 2013 or 2014.

Yahoo! Toolbar <=SEP=> Yahoo! Toolbar is a productivity enhancer that lives on the Browsers. It is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. Yahoo! Toolbar has been around for more than 10 years and has evolved since its inception.Originally aimed at being a bookmark and pop-up blocker, it evolved to provide app-like experience within the Toolbar. It has apps for leading sites like Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Weather and News. It also allows users to bookmark sites and manage them.

Yahoo! Voice <=SEP=> Yahoo Voice is Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, provided by Yahoo via its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging application. Yahoo Voice uses the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), GIPS codec and the Dialpad engine for voice transport.  Since 2008 the service has been provided by JAJAH, an outsourced VoIP provider. During July 2012, Yahoo voice has been compromised and 453,491 email address and their passwords were hacked. This major devastation was achieved via SQL injection.

Zero (game engine) <=SEP=> Zero is a proprietary game engine created by Pandemic Studios. It was used first in the game Battlezone II: Combat Commander and later used in several Star Wars games including the popular Battlefront series. Battlezone II: Combat Commander and Dark Reign 2 both feature an in-engine editor accessible via commands. The engine was revamped for Star Wars: The Clone Wars to accommodate consoles and third person gameplay.

ΜTorrent <=SEP=> ΜTorrent µTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation) is a freeware, ad-supported, proprietary BitTorrent client owned and developed by BitTorrent, Inc. With over 100 million users it is the most widely used BitTorrent client outside China; globally only behind Xunlei.