MadCap Software
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{{Infobox company
| name = MadCap Software
| logo = Madcaplogo.jpg
| type = Private
| foundation = {{start date and age|2005}}
San Diego, California
| location = San Diego, California
| industry = Computer software
| products = Help authoring tool technical documentation
| homepage = [http://www.madcapsoftware.com/ www.madcapsoftware.com]
}}
MadCap Software is an American computer software firm headquartered in San Diego, California, that creates help authoring tools for technical writers and documentation teams. Several principal managers, software engineers, and support personnel were recruited from rival firms, such as Adobe Systems and Macromedia, to found MadCap Software.{{cite web|title=MadCap Software About Us|url=http://www.madcapsoftware.com/company/management.aspx|publisher=MadCap Software|access-date=26 March 2013}} MadCap's authoring tools are all based on xHTML.
Origins
Some of MadCap Software's founders were associated with eHelp and its core product, RoboHelp, a help authoring tool. After it was bought by Macromedia in 2003, the eHelp developers were laid off. MadCap co-founder Bjorn Backlund had headed the RoboHelp development team. He saw an opportunity to compete with RoboHelp by rewriting the program using XML and expanding the software. MadCap's founding CEO, Anthony Olivier, had been eHelp's CEO.{{Cite web|url=http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20070810/news_1b10tech.html|title=Outsourced but not outdone {{!}} The San Diego Union-Tribune|website=legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com|access-date=2017-07-03}}
See also
References
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- {{citation |last=Hall |first=Mark |journal=Computerworld |title=Authoring tools tussle will get rowdier later this year |date=January 8, 2007 |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=10}}
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