About - Apogee Software, Inc.

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Apogee Software, Inc. (Apogee) was founded in 1988 by 6 compiler designers with the goal of providing a compiler technology with high reliability, outstanding runtime performance, and easy porting to various RISC architectures. It had completed its first product, the optimizing C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers for Intergraph's Clipper, Motorola's M88K, and Sun's SuperSPARC processors, in less than 4 years. Since then, Apogee gradually developed and brought to the market the optimizing C/C++ cross-compilers for various RISC architectures, such as PowerPC (in 1995), MIPS32/64 (in 1997), ARM (in 2001), StrongARM/XScale (in 2003), and ARM16/Thumb (in 2004).

Over the years, Apogee's compiler technology was licensed by several major hardware and software vendors, such as Mentor Graphics, Cirrus Logic, Chromatic Research, Infinite Technology Corporation, NEC Electronics, Palm, Philips Semiconductors, Proceler, Silicon Graphics, ST Microelectronics, and Telairity Semiconductors.

In 1996, Apogee started a major effort to create an environment for developing and deploying Java applications targeted at embedded systems. This effort resulted in a comprehensive software offering for embedded systems comprised of JREs (Java Runtime Environment) based on the Java technologies licensed from Sun Microsystems and JDE (Java Development Environment) based on Aonix ObjectADA IDE. However, after Sun significantly increased the annual licensing fees for its Java technologies in 2003, Apogee switched to IBM's Java ME compatible Java technologies for use in its JREs. Since then, Apogee has created over 50 different JRE configurations, targeting a diverse array of devices and embedded systems, and is constantly adding new ones.

In addition to using IBM Java technologies, Apogee has gradually started to use in its JREs suitable Java technologies obtained from selected providers of open-source Java software. Apogee also developed for use in the JREs several key technologies that are not available from IBM or providers of open source Java software. This resulted in current JREs being exceptionally well received by Apogee's customers, because they facilitate reliable and high performance deployments of all kinds of Java applications on many types of devices.

In middle of 2007, Apogee sold the intellectual property of its entire compiler technology to a major Japanese corporation in order to concentrate its full development and marketing efforts on the JREs.

Based in Campbell, one of the cities in California's "Silicon Valley", Apogee is a privately held California corporation owned by 3 of the original founders, the initial "angel" investor, and the key employees. Apogee has a wholly owned subsidiary Apogee Software, s.r.o. in Prague, Czech Republic.

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