• Software Arts was a software company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979 to develop VisiCalc, which was published by a separate company,...
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    since software inventions were not eligible for patent protection at the time. Bricklin was chairman of Software Arts until 1985, the year that Software Arts...
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  • , Electronic Arts has respectively published and developed video games, bundles, as well as a handful of earlier productivity software. Only versions...
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    suggested the name "SoftArt". Hawkins and Melmon knew the founders of Software Arts, the creators of VisiCalc, and thought their permission should be obtained...
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  • Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was sold...
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    VisiCalc (category 1979 software)
    financial modeling software, Bob Frankston joined Bricklin at 231 Broadway, Arlington, Massachusetts. The pair formed the Software Arts company, and developed...
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  • TK Solver (category 1982 software)
    in 1982 by Software Arts, the company behind VisiCalc, TK Solver was acquired by Universal Technical Systems in 1984 after Software Arts fell into financial...
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    software engineer and businessman who co-created, with Dan Bricklin, the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Frankston is also the co-founder of Software Arts...
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    VisiCorp (redirect from Personal Software)
    computers. In 1979 it published the very successful VisiCalc developed by Software Arts, and in 1980 received outside investment from Arthur Rock and Venrock...
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  • "document interchange format" for word processors. DIF was developed by Software Arts, Inc. (the developers of the VisiCalc program) in the early 1980s. The...
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    Tessitura is a software package for nonprofit arts and culture organizations, marketed as "arts enterprise software." Tessitura was initially developed...
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  • id Software LLC (/ɪd/) is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer...
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    John Riccitiello (category Electronic Arts employees)
    Entertainment Software Association, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, the Haas School of Business and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. John Riccitiello...
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  • Rainbow Arts Software GmbH was a German video game publisher based in Gütersloh. The company was founded in 1984 by Marc Ullrich and Thomas Meiertoberens...
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  • Distinctive Software, Inc. was a Canadian video game developer established in Burnaby, British Columbia, by Don Mattrick and Jeff Sember after their success...
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    developed games, bundles, as well as a handful of earlier productivity software. Only versions of games developed or published by EA, as well as those...
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  • 1996 as a division of Criterion Software, it was owned by Canon Inc. until Criterion Software was sold to Electronic Arts in October 2004. Many of the studio's...
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  • in 2011. Procreate for iPad was first released in 2011 by the Tasmanian software company Savage Interactive. In June 2013, Savage launched Procreate 2 in...
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  • Botswana and Eswatini. Vision Software was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA) on April 8, 1996. Vision was the leader of software sales in South Africa at the...
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    Software categories are groups of software. They allow software to be understood in terms of those categories, instead of the particularities of each...
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  • known as ABC Software Switzerland. Its subsidiary, ABC Software Austria, was established in 1993. They were acquired by Electronic Arts on July 28, 1998...
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    graphics software app intended for expressive drawing and concept sketching also for making animations (Jelly Boo, Teatralka). The software was first...
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    development of highly complex software for structural analysis and design and founding the Engineers Alliance for the Arts and the Diablo Ballet". American...
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    worked for Jonathan Sachs. After leaving Data General, Ozzie worked at Software Arts for Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the creators of VisiCalc, on that...
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    on 2016-07-07. Retrieved 2016-07-07. Software Industry Report (1997-06-04). "Electronic Arts; Distinctive Software Inc". AllBusiness. Retrieved 2008-04-13...
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    IBM PC. In 1982, he founded Time Arts, Inc. in Glen Ellen, California to further develop the EASEL software. The software was eventually renamed "Lumena...
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    Raven Software Corporation (trade name: Raven; formerly Raven Software, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Middleton, Wisconsin, and part...
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  • graphical user interface. aRts is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. On December 2, 2004 aRts' creator and primary...
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    productivity software. Only versions of games developed or published by EA, as well as those versions' years of release, are listed. List of Electronic Arts games...
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  • and purchase games from Electronic Arts' catalogs. Instead of receiving a box, disc, or even CD key, purchased software is immediately attached to the user's...
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