Developer of system software

On this page are listed the developers of the operating systems. Beside the screenshot of the website from the year 2003 an excerpt is given with an short description and the associated system software. Companies those a detailed description in this archives is available can be chosen over the right navigation column. The screenshots are a snapshot to show the design and the current topics of the respective companies.

Website 2003

Apple

Apple computer was founded by Steve Jobs with 21 years and Stephen G. Wozniak with 26 years in Palo Alto/California in 1976.
- Sophisticated Operating System (SOS)
- Mac OS X
- A/UX
- ProDOS

Website 2003

AT&T

AT&T can look back at a long history and numerous innovations. Named as American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation developed the founders Alexander Graham Bell the telephone in 1875.
- UNIX

Website 2003

Be Inc.

The company Be Incorporated was founded of Jean-Louis Gassée with a couple of developers after his work in the Apple development department in 1990. By the assumption of Palm Inc. for 11 million dollar BeOS is not any longer commercially developed in August 2001. The BeOS Community and some BeOS developers keeps the support for the future.
- BeOS
- BeIA

Website 2003

Cray Inc.

Cray Research, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Seymour Cray (28-9-1925 to 5-9-1996) at the age of 47 years. Since 1951 he was mainly and with great engagement engaged in the development of high performance calculating machines.In 1989 Cray leaves the research institute Cray Research and founds the Cray Computer Corp. in Colorado.
- UNICOS

Website 2003

FreeBSD

In November 1993 Jordan Hubbard started the FreeBSD project, in which he took source code from the 386BSD.
- FreeBSD
- DragonFly BSD (derivative)
- ekkoBSD (derivative)
- PC-BSD (derivative)
- PicoBSD (derivative)

Website 2003

HP

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP (Hewlett-Packard) in 1939. At the beginning oscillographs were produced and commercialized.
- HP-UX

Website 2003

IBM

IBM Corp. was founded with the name Computing Tabulating Recording Co.(CTR) in New York on June 15th, 1911. CTR was then renamed in International Business Machines in 1924.
- OS/360
- AIX
- MVS
- OS/2

Website 2003

Linux

Linus (Benedict) Torvalds developed the operating system Linux. Its operating system was derivated from concepts of Minix but completely written from scratch. On 17th September 1991 the operating system Freax version 0.01 was finished. It contained already the GNU Shell bash and the GNU C-compiler GCC from Richard Stallman, which counts to the standard programs for the meantime named operating system Linux.
- GNU/Linux

Website 2003

Linspire

Michael Robertson had announced the beginning of an ambitious project in August 2001. Programs of both Windows and Linux can be installed and executed easily. In the legal controversy about the word similarity of the name Lindows to Microsoft Windows the opponents agreed about the renaming of Lindows in Linspire.
- Freespire
- Linspire (LindowsOS)

Website 2003

Mandriva

MandrakeSoft was founded in France in 1998. From the fusion of Mandrakesoft and Conectiva was Mandriva formed. Mandrakesoft published the take-over of the Linux enterprise Conectiva leading in Brazil and Latin America on 24-2-2005.
- Mandriva Linux (Mandrake Linux)

Website 2003

Microsoft

Paul Allen and Bill of Gate went to the same school and founded the company Traf-O-Data for the manufacture of small computer systems for the logging of car traffic in 1971. Both founded later the company Micro-Soft in 1975 to develop software and porting programming languages for the IBM PC.
- XENIX (Koproduktion mit SCO)
- MS-DOS
- OS/2 (Koproduktion mit IBM)
- Windows

Website 2003

Minix

Minix was programmed by the computer scientist Andrew Tanenbaum as a teaching operating system for x86 computer.
- MINIX

Website 2003

NetBSD

NetBSD is a UNIX derivative and is descended directly from the Berkeley Networking Release 2 (BSD Net/2) and was published for the first time in March 1993.
- NetBSD

Website 2003

Novell

Novell has his roots in the a computer manufacturer Novell Data Systems in 1979. In January 1983, this company was renamed to Novell Inc. with the new target to develop and commercialize software and hardware for use in networks.
- NetWare
- SuSE Linux /OpenSuSE

Website 2003

OpenBSD

OpenBSD is descended from NetBSD 1.0 (1994) and split in October 1995 through Theo de Raadt in an independent distribution.
- OpenBSD
- MirOS BSD (derivative)
- emBSD (derivative)
- Anonym.OS (derivative)
- OliveBSD (derivative)

Website 2003

Palm Inc.

Jeff Hawkins founded the company Palm Computing in 1992 and appointed Donna Dubinsky as CEO. Palm developed first application software for numerous Handheld models. Since september 2005 PalmSource belongs to the Japanese software provider Access. On 25 January 2007 Palm OS was renamed in Garnet OS and old devices with Palm OS and new devices of Access has the Logo "Access Powered".
- PalmOS
- GarnetOS

Website 2003

QNX

QNX is a real time operating system designed for critical tasks. Developed by QNX Software Systems it has a structure similar to UNIX and is compatible to POSIX.
- QNX

Website 2003

ReactOS

In 1996 a small group of persons had decided to create a completely new operating system that can execute Windows applications.
- ReactOS

Website 2003

Red Hat

The company Red Hat with company headquarters in the USA North Carolina was founded 1994 by Bob Young and Marc Ewing. From the beginning the open source operating system has played a high role for the enterprise concept.
- Red Hat Linux
- Fedora Linux (derivative)
- CentOS (derivative)

Website 2003

RISC OS

The Reduced Instruction Set Computer operating system was first used in Acorn Archimedes computers in 1987.
- RISC OS

Website 2003

SCO

SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) was founded in 1979 of the both brothers Doug and Larry Michels who developed the UNIX derivative SCO UNIX for Intel computers. SCO showed the next company plan at the "Forum 2000" after the sale of the UNIX business to the Linux company Caldera. Caldera split up into the SCO Group for the complete UnixWare and Open Server operating system business.
- UnixWare
- SCO Linux

Website 2003

SGI

Silicon Graphics, Inc. is founded by 8 persons in 1982. SGI is manufacturer of workstations, servers and also sells supercomputers and clusters for effortful graphical computing. SGI has his headquarters in Mountain View, California and is leaded by Rick Beluzzo as CEO.
- IRIX

Website 2003

Sun

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was founded by Andreas of Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy in the Californian Silicon Valley in 1982. Sun Microsystems GmbH was set up in 1984 in Munich, sales offices are established in Ratingen, Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart.
- JavaOS
- Solaris

Website 2003

SuSE

SuSE GmbH (society for software and system development) is a daughter enterprise of SuSE Linux AG. SuSE was founded on 2-9-1992 of Burchard Steinbild, Hubert Mantel, Thomas Fehr and Roland Dyroff and offers a Linux distribution of its own in the European area. Novell announced the take-over of the company SuSE Linux on 4th November 2003.
- SuSE Linux

Website 2003

Symbian

EPOC is the operating system of Symbian, formerly software house of Psion. Symbian has licensed Symbian OS to companies which are big players in the market of High Technology mobile telephones. Symbian, EPOC, the Symbian logo and Symbian Developer Network logo are registered trademarks of the Symbian Ltd.
- EPOC
- Symbian OS

Website 2003

YellowTAB

yellowTAB was founded in Germany, Stuttgart by 10 persons. This company acquired the license from Palm to use and develop the BeOS source code. The software publisher magnussoft takes over the YellowTab Zeta operating system starting from May 2006 and provides exclusively the world-wide distribution and development. YellowTab is in the insolvency.
- Zeta operating system


Page created: 2004-04-03 [SB]
Last update: 2008-03-03



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DANIEL DACHI
02 Sep 2007, 22:30
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21 Aug 2007, 21:24
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