Allume Systems

{{redirect-distinguish|Aladdin Systems|Aladdin Enterprises|Aladdin Knowledge Systems}}

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Allume Systems was a software developer, founded in 1988 by David Schargel and Jonathan Kahn in New York City as Aladdin Systems to develop, publish and distribute software for personal computers. Aladdin Systems was incorporated in January 1989.

In April 2004, the company was acquired by PC software publisher International Microcomputer Software Inc. (IMSI).{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/01/19/daily29.html |title=IMSI to acquire Aladdin Systems |newspaper=Silicon Valley Business Journal |date=January 21, 2004}}{{cite news |url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1031354/aladdin.html |title=IMSI completes Aladdin Systems acquisition |magazine=Macworld |date=April 20, 2004 |first=Peter |last=Cohen}}{{cite news |url=http://tidbits.com/article/7773 |title=Aladdin Purchased, Becomes Allume, Sponsors TidBITS |website=TidBITS |date=August 16, 2004 |first=Adam C. |last=Engst |authorlink=Adam C. Engst}} A few months later in July, the company was forced to change its name from Aladdin Systems as part of a settlement of a trademark lawsuit with Aladdin Knowledge Systems.{{cite web |url=http://www.allume.com/company/pressroom/releases/allume/072604allume.html |date=2004-07-26 |publisher=Allume Systems (Retrieved from the Internet Archive.) |title=ALADDIN SYSTEMS CHANGES NAME TO ALLUME SYSTEMS |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051202012101/http://www.allume.com/company/pressroom/releases/allume/072604allume.html |archivedate=2005-12-02}}{{cite news |url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1035024/allume.html |title=Aladdin renames itself Allume |magazine=Macworld |date=July 30, 2004 |first=Peter |last=Cohen}} In 2005, Allume Systems was acquired by Smith Micro Software from IMSI.{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2005/07/04/daily4.html |title=Smith Micro acquires Allume Systems |newspaper=L.A. Biz |date=July 5, 2005}}{{cite news |url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1045614/smithmicro.html |title=Smith Micro acquires StuffIt maker Allume |magazine=Macworld |date=July 5, 2005 |first=Peter |last=Cohen}}{{cite news |url=http://tidbits.com/article/8165 |title=Smith Micro Acquires Allume |website=TidBITS |date=July 11, 2005 |first=Geoff |last=Duncan}}

Products

As Aladdin Systems, they originally developed exclusively for Macintosh, focusing on data compression and management utilities, such as the StuffIt family of compression utilities and the StuffIt InstallerMaker delivery suite, the ShrinkWrap disk image utility, and its Spring Cleaning system optimization utility.{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1098875/0001005477-02-001250.txt |title=2001 SEC Form 10-KSB Annual Report |date=2001 |publisher=SEC}}

As Aladdin Systems, the company purchased the ShrinkWrap disk image utility from Macintosh shareware developer Chad Magendanz in 1996.{{cite news |url=http://www.mactech.com/content/md1-aladdin-acquires-shrinkwrap-0 |title=Aladdin acquires ShrinkWrap |magazine=MacTech |date=November 13, 1996}}{{cite news |url=http://tidbits.com/article/824 |title=ShrinkWrap 2.1 |website=TidBITS |date=November 11, 1996 |first=Geoff |last=Duncan}}

As early as 1995, Allume began to release some elements of StuffIt to Windows while not releasing the full StuffIt for Windows until 2000. StuffIt was later ported to both Linux and Solaris in 2001.{{cite news |url=https://lwn.net/2001/0712/pr/pr2681.php3 |title=Aladdin Ships Stuffit for Linux and Solaris |website=LWN.net |date=July 9, 2001}} Under Smith Micro, both Unix products have since been discontinued. By this time, Allume began to publish or distribute a full line of graphics, imaging, internet security, and utility software.{{Needs citation|date=October 2024}}

In response to the success of the popular marine aquarium fishtank simulator, they have also released their own line of fish sims known as Aquazone.{{Cite web |last=Salminen |first=Carl |date=2005-03-26 |title=A game by any other name |url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2005/03/games-20050325/ |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-US}}

References

External links

[http://my.smithmicro.com/ Smith Micro Software]

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