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Industry | Software publishing |
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Founded | August 1991Walnut Creek, California | in
Founder | Bob Bruce |
Defunct | 2001 |
Fate | Restructured and renamed iXsystems |
Walnut Creek CDROM Inc. was an early provider of freeware, shareware, and free software on CD-ROMs. The company was founded by Bob Bruce in Walnut Creek, California, in August 1991. It was one of the first commercial distributors of free software on CD-ROMs. The company produced hundreds of titles on CD-ROMs, and ran the busiest FTP site on the Internet, ftp.cdrom.com, for many years.