The system uses data compression software developed at Rates Technology.

It can be used in data compression software applications.

But reliable data compression software has been available for some time from other companies, and yet very few PC users have tried it.

The first company to get out the writs is Stac, which makes the data compression software Stacker.

In 2005, Smith Micro moved to expand its consumer product line with the acquisition of Allume Systems and their StuffIt data compression software.

For cleaning up computer disk storage, utility software usually exists for this purpose such as data compression software - to "shrink" files and release disk space, defragmentation programs - to improve disk performance.

Montgomery became a partner to former Michael Milken junk bond trader Warren G. Trepp and investor Wayne Prim to develop and sell audio, video and data compression software under the banner eTreppid Technologies in 1998.

The rzip program is huge-scale data compression software designed around initial LZ77-style string matching on a 900 MB dictionary window, followed by bzip2-based Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) and entropy coding (Huffman) on 900 kB output chunks.