Central Point Software, Inc. (CP, CPS, Central Point) was a leading software utilities maker for the PC market, supplying utilities software for the DOS and Microsoft Windows markets. It also made Apple II copy programs.

Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 List of CPS products 4 See also 5 References

[edit] History

CPS was founded by Michael Burmeister-Brown (Mike Brown)^[1] in 1980 in Central Point, Oregon, for which the company was named. Building on the success of its Copy II PC backup utility, it moved to Beaverton, Oregon and later went public, trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol CPWC. In 1993 CPS acquired the XTree Company. It was itself acquired by Symantec in 1994, for around $60 million^[2]

[edit] Products

The company's most important early product was Copy II PC (copy2pc), a utility which allowed exact duplicates to be made of copy-protected diskettes, released in June 1981.^[3] CPS also offered a hardware add-in expansion card, the Copy II PC Deluxe Board, which worked in conjunction with the software (which did not require the board). COPY II PC's main competitor was Quaid Software's CopyWrite, which did not have a hardware component.

In 1985 CPS released PC Tools, an integrated graphical DOS shell and utilities package. PC Tools was an instant success and became Central Point's flagship product, and positioned the company as the major competitor to Peter Norton Computing and its Norton Utilities and Norton Commander. CPS later manufactured a Macintosh version called Mac Tools. CPS licensed the Mirror, Undelete, and Unformat components of PC Tools to Microsoft for inclusion in MS DOS versions 5.x and 6.x as external DOS utilities. CPS File Manager was ahead of its time, with features such as view ZIP archives as directories and a file/picture viewer.

CPS's other major product was Central Point Anti-Virus (CPAV), whose main competitor was Norton Antivirus. CPAV was a licensed version of Carmel Software's Turbo Anti-Virus; CPS, in turn, licensed CPAV to Microsoft to create Microsoft Antivirus for DOS (MSAV) and Windows (MWAV).

[edit] List of CPS products

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

• PC Tools
• PC Tools for Windows
• Central Point Anti-Virus
• Central Point Anti-Virus for NetWare
• Central Point Backup
• Central Point Desktop
• Central Point Commute
• Copy II+
• Copy II PC
• Mac Tools (Central Point Software)
• More PC Tools
• Lan Lord
• Deluxe Option Board

[edit] See also

• List of mergers and acquisitions by Symantec

[edit] References

v • d • e Symantec People Gary Hendrix (founder) · Enrique T. Salem (CEO) Products Backup Exec · Drive Image · Ghost · GoBack · Grandview · NetBackup · Norton 360 · Norton AntiBot · Norton AntiVirus · Norton Commander · Norton Download Insight  · Norton Insight · Norton Internet Security · OnlineFamily.Norton · Norton PC Checkup · Norton Personal Firewall · Norton Safe Web · Norton Utilities · PartitionMagic · pcAnywhere · Q&A · Quarterdeck CleanSweep · Norton Removal Tool · SONAR · Symantec Endpoint Protection · Norton LiveUpdate · Enterprise Vault · THINK C · THINK Reference · Veritas Cluster Server · Veritas File System · Veritas Storage Foundation · Disaster Recovery Advisor · Veritas Volume Manager · WinFax Acquisitions 4FrontSecurity · @stake · Altiris · Binary Research · BindView · Brightmail · Central Point Software · Company-i · Delrina · Dynamic Microprocessor Associates · Fast Track · Fifth Generation Systems · Leonard Development Group · LIRIC Associates · MessageLabs · Mountain Wave · Nexland · ON Technology · Peter Norton Computing · Platform Logic · PowerQuest · Quarterdeck · Quest Development · Recourse Technologies · Relicore · Riptech · SecurityFocus · SLR Systems · Sygate Technologies · TurnTide · Urlabs · Veritas Software · Whitewater Group · WholeSecurity Related Mergers and acquisitions

This article about an IT-related or software-related company or corporation is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e