- Allume Systems
Allume Systems is a
software developer , originally founded in 1988 inNew York City as Aladdin Systems to develop, publish and distributesoftware forpersonal computer s. Allume was incorporated in January 1989. In July 2004 the company was forced to change its name from Aladdin Systems as part of a settlement of atrademark lawsuit withAladdin Knowledge Systems . [Press release: [http://www.allume.com/company/pressroom/releases/allume/072604allume.html ALADDIN SYSTEMS CHANGES NAME TO ALLUME SYSTEMS: Allume To Carry On Aladdin Software With New Branding Campaign] , "Aladdin Systems Company Information/Allume Systems, Inc.", 2004-07-26] In 2005, Allume Systems was acquired bySmith Micro Software . Currently, Allume is headquartered inWatsonville, California , as part of Smith Micro Software.Products
Allume Systems originally developed exclusively for
Macintosh , focusing on data compression and management utilities, such as theStuffIt family of compression utilities (and the StuffIt InstallerMaker delivery suite), the ShrinkWrap disk image utility, and its Spring Cleaning system optimization utility.In 1998, Allume ported
StuffIt to Windows and more recently toLinux , and has released a full line ofgraphics ,imaging ,internet security , and utility software.Presumedly in response to the success of the popular
marine aquarium fishtank simulator, they have also released their own Aquazone line of fish sims (not to be confused with the no longer available fish tankcomputer simulation from9003.inc that's also namedAquaZone ).Most of their current products are available for both Windows PCs and
Apple Macintosh .References
External links
* [http://my.smithmicro.com/ Smith Micro Consumer Software]
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