Allume Systems was a
software developer
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, founded in 1988 by David Schargel and Jonathan Kahn in
New York City as Aladdin Systems to develop, publish and distribute
software for
personal computers. Aladdin Systems was
incorporated in January 1989.
In April 2004, the company was acquired by PC software publisher International Microcomputer Software Inc. (IMSI).
A few months later in July, the company was forced to change its name from Aladdin Systems as part of a settlement of a
trademark lawsuit
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with
Aladdin Knowledge Systems.
In 2005, Allume Systems was acquired by
Smith Micro Software from IMSI.
Products
As Aladdin Systems, they originally developed exclusively for
Macintosh, focusing on data compression and management utilities, such as the
StuffIt family of compression utilities and the ''StuffIt InstallerMaker'' delivery suite, the ''ShrinkWrap'' disk image utility, and its ''Spring Cleaning'' system optimization utility.
As Aladdin Systems, the company purchased the ''ShrinkWrap'' disk image utility from Macintosh shareware developer
Chad Magendanz
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in 1996.
As early as 1995, Allume began to release some elements of
StuffIt to
Windows while not releasing the full ''StuffIt for Windows'' until 2000.
StuffIt was later ported to both
Linux and
Solaris
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** ''Solaris'' (1968 film), directed by Boris Nirenburg
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in 2001.
Under Smith Micro, both Unix products have since been discontinued.
By this time, Allume began to publish or distribute a full line of
graphics
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,
imaging,
internet security, and utility software.
In response to the success of the popular
marine aquarium fishtank simulator, they have also released their own line of fish sims known as Aquazone, which is not affiliated with the discontinued fish tank
computer simulation
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from 9003.inc by the same name.
Smith Micro
Smith Micro Software, Inc., founded in 1982 by William W. Smith, Jr., is a developer and marketer of both enterprise and consumer-level software and services. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Smith Micro maintains multiple domestic and ...
's latest versions of StuffIt are StuffIt Deluxe 2010 for Windows and StuffIt Deluxe 16 for Mac.
References
External links
Smith Micro Software
Watsonville, California
Companies based in Santa Cruz County, California
Software companies established in 1988
2005 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States
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