Central Point software
Central Point Software, Inc. ( CP or CPS for short ) was a leading manufacturer of software utilities for the PC market. CPS was acquired by Symantec in 1994 for $ 64 million .
history
CPS was founded by Michael Burmeister-Brown (Mike Brown) in 1980 in Central Point (Oregon) , which is also the name of the company. CPS was Peter Norton Computing's main competitor in the 1980s . His "flagship" PC Tools competed against Norton Utilities , Norton Commander and Xtree and was an integrated graphical DOS user interface and utility package. CPS licensed the components of the PC Tools - Mirror, Undelete and Unformat - to Microsoft and IBM for use in versions 5.x and 6.x of MS-DOS and PC DOS as external DOS utilities. The PC Tools were in some ways ahead of their time. The CP file manager had integration of archives , docked file viewer with format recognition instead of format handling based on file extension, complete integration of Undelete, use of tabs; Symantec claimed that "defrag in a multitasking environment" was impossible, and the PC tools could do it anyway. Symantec's “solution” was to buy Central Point. CPS also made a Macintosh version of PC Tools , the Mac Tools .
Its other major product was Central Point Anti-Virus (CPAV), which was based on a licensed version of Carmel Software Turbo Anti-Virus . The first version of CPAV was integrated into CP Backup , where a virus scan instead of backup had to be selected. Up to the last version, the entire surface was based on the look and feel of CP Backup. CPS licensed kernel, express interface for DOS (simplified version of the operation with increased memory requirements) and the Windows version of CPAV 1.4 to Microsoft to produce Microsoft antivirus for DOS and Windows (MSAV and MWAV), while CPAV 2.0 came onto the market at the same time.
Programs
- PC tools for DOS & Windows
- More PC Tools for Windows
- Mac Tools for Macintosh with a 68k processor
- Central Point Anti-Virus for DOS, Windows, OS / 2, Novell Netware
- CP backup for DOS & Windows
- Central Point Desktop Windows
- Copy II + for the Apple II
- Copy II PC for DOS (and optionally the Central Point Deluxe Option Board as hardware that can be used with it )
- Copy II 64 for the Commodore 64
- Xtree
Acquisitions
- 1991:?: Commute
- 1992: Eikon Systems Inc.
- 1993: Maxa Corp .: Alert! & Snooper (Macitosh Utilities)
- 1993: XTree Company : Xtree
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anatomy of a Price Increase ( English ) In: Soft-Letter . www.entrepreneur.com. August 20, 1990. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
- ↑ Source: c't & Tomson Financial
