Raxco Software is a Maryland

Maryland

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 based developer of Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 and OpenVMS

OpenVMS

OpenVMS , previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based families of computers. Contrary to what its name suggests, OpenVMS is not open source software; however, the source listings are available for purchase...

 software
recognized foremost for its defragmentation products, chiefly PerfectDisk

PerfectDisk

PerfectDisk is the name of separate but related defragmentation utilities for Windows and HP OpenVMS published by Raxco Software. It has won several awards from computer magazines, and is certified by Microsoft for all its current NTFS-based operating systems...

. Other utilities range from backup software to disaster protection for consumers and the corporate

Corporation

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 sector. Other products provide functionality for performance management and log file analysis. The company was Founded in 1978. The President

President

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 is Arthur Frischman and Chief Executive is Robert Nolan. Industry competitors include O&O Software

O&O Software

- Products :The company develops and sells software products for data management and security. The first product O&O Defrag was released in February 1998...

, Diskeeper Corporation

Diskeeper

-Further reading:#...

, and the free open source JkDefrag

JkDefrag

MyDefrag is a freeware disk defragmenting utility for Windows. JkDefrag was developed by Jeroen Kessels from 2004. The major change between JkDefrag and MyDefrag is the inclusion of a scripting language. This permits control of all the algorithms and techniques used in MyDefrag...

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External links

• Defrag Raxco Homepage
• Press Releases