What was the first software company?
Computer Usage Company
Computer Usage Company (CUC), the world’s first computer software company, was founded by John W. Sheldon and me in March 1955. Previously, we had worked together for several years at the New York City IBM Technical Computing Bureau. Some 31 years later, CUC was declared bankrupt and ceased to exist.
What was the first software developed by Adobe?
The first such application, introduced in 1987, was Adobe Illustrator, a PostScript-based drawing package for artists, designers, and technical illustrators. Adobe Photoshop, an application for retouching digitized photographic images, followed three years later and quickly became Adobe’s most successful program.
What came after Lotus 123?
During the early 1990s, Windows grew in popularity, and along with it, Excel, which gradually displaced Lotus from its leading position.
What happened to Sun workstations?
Sun products included computer servers and workstations built on its own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture, as well as on x86-based AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors….Sun Microsystems.
| Logo used from the 1990s until acquisition by Oracle | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public |
| Fate | Acquired by Oracle |
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, California , U.S. |
How old is the company Adobe?
Adobe Inc.
| Adobe World Headquarters in San Jose, California | |
|---|---|
| Founded | December 1982 Mountain View, California, U.S. |
| Founders | John Warnock Charles Geschke |
| Headquarters | Adobe World Headquarters, San Jose, California , U.S |
| Area served | Worldwide |
Who founded Adobe and invented Photoshop?
Thomas and John Knoll
Adobe Photoshop, computer application software used to edit and manipulate digital images. Photoshop was developed in 1987 by the American brothers Thomas and John Knoll, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988.
Who is the father of electronic spreadsheet?
Dan Bricklin
For his work with VisiCalc, Bricklin is often referred to as “the father of the Spreadsheet.”…
| Dan Bricklin | |
|---|---|
| Known for | VisiCalc wikiCalc |
Who created Multiplan?
Microsoft
Multiplan
| Multiplan on MS-DOS (top) and the Commodore 64 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Doug Klunder of Microsoft |
| Initial release | August 1982 |
| Written in | p-code C |
| Operating system | CP/M, Apple II, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, CTOS, TI-99/4A, TRS-80, UNIX, Thomson |
What happened to Oracle Solaris?
Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. After the Sun acquisition by Oracle in 2010, it was renamed Oracle Solaris. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue the OpenSolaris distribution and the development model.