Software company

The term software company could be applied to; a) a company that produces software or b) a company that distributes software from a third party or c) a company that provides services for software

Early Software companies

list here... (Early software was likely written by early hardware companies, at least until commodity hardware (i.e. the IBM PC) arrived on the market.)

• AT&T
• Digital Equipment Corporation
• IBM
• Univac

Early PC Software companies

• Ashton-Tate
• Borland
• Peter Norton (?)
• WordPerfect
• WordStar

Notable Software companies

• Apple Computer
• Lotus Development
• Mandrake Linux
• Microsoft
• Oracle Corporation
• PeopleSoft
• Red Hat
• SAP (company)
• SCO Group