Raxco


Raxco Software Inc. was a Gaithersburg, Maryland software company. Founded in 1978, the company's products were sold internationally.
In 1995, a division of the company was split into the spin-off company Axent Technologies'','' which was later acquired by Symantec in 2000. Raxco continued with its own product offerings. PerfectDisk becoming its flagship software package.
Raxco transitioned away from its 1980s and 1990s VAX/pre-OpenVMS VMS and OpenVMS software product lines, and became private after a management buyout in 2001.

Interim ownerships

From the later 1990s through the early 2000s, corporate ownership of the two organizations transitioned:
Raxco then changed its course from VAX/VMS to the PC/Server industry in 2003.
Raxco closed operations in May, 2024. All their standalone products will continue to work, but no product activations will be made, and no updates or support will be offered. Subscription-based products will remain functional until their expiration date.

History

During the 1980s, using the collective name RAXCO Rabbit Software, the company marketed a series of nine software packages for the VAX:
Raxco's VAX product line was still active in the 1990s, even as it was building and expanding its PC Product line. By 2003 the PC desktop and server market became the company's focus.

Product line

Aside from PerfectDisk, the company also marketed: