Two years later, the company acquired Ascent Solutions, a large-platform software firm based in Dayton, Ohio. The following year, his family sold the company to a new management team led by George Haddix and backed by investment-banking firm Grace Matthews.
In 2000, PKWARE founder Phil Katz died at the age of 37.
#ZIP READER PKWARE ZIP#
ZIP format proved so popular that it became the de facto standard for data compression and remains in use throughout the world after more than 30 years. PKWARE grew rapidly in its early years, fueled by enthusiasm from the bulletin board and shareware communities, along with steady business from large corporations who were eager to minimize the demands on their limited computing resources.
#ZIP READER PKWARE ZIP FILE#
PKZIP was the first program to use the new ZIP file format, which Katz developed in conjunction with Gary Conway and subsequently released into the public domain. He released his own compression program, which he called PKZIP, in 1989. įollowing a legal settlement with Systems Enhancement Associates Inc., the owners of ARC, Katz stopped distributing PKARC. PKARC represented a radical improvement over existing compression software (including the ARC utility on which it was based) and rapidly gained popularity among individuals and corporations. PKWARE was founded in 1986 by Phil Katz, a software developer who had begun distributing a new file compression utility, called PKARC, as shareware. More recently, PKWARE has focused on enterprise data protection, developing products that integrate data discovery, encryption, and encryption key management. Katz’s ZIP innovations were a rallying point for early online bulletin board system and shareware communities. PKWARE was founded in 1986 by Phil Katz, co-inventor of the ZIP standard. The company provides encryption and data compression software used by thousands of organizations in banking, financial services, healthcare and government. is an enterprise software company headquarted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with offices in the US and UK. PKW dm 01 ( talk) 21:56, 11 July 2017 (UTC) Proposed Edit Other than a bit of new product information and the "Awards" section, I haven't included anything in my rewrite that wasn't already cited in the existing page. In summary, I removed the "History" timeline and replaced with a narrative format in 4 sections replaced the overly long "Products" section with a shorter (and up to date) version in table form moved the "Patents" below the "Products" section added an "Awards" section listing a few notable industry awards (with source notations) My suggested new content is pasted below (between "nowiki" tags). The existing page is heavy on older product details and doesn't include our recent history. Hello, I'm the communications director for PKWARE and would like to suggest a rewrite for this page that would make it shorter, more accurate, more relevant, and would actually tone down some of the promotional content that's in the article now. This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
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