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Blueberry Software Company ProfileBlueberry Software, Inc., a privately-held California corporation, is located in the city of Concord in the San Francisco East Bay. The company was started in March of 1986 by Steven Beigel, the current President and CEO. Since its establishment, Blueberry Software has developed both retail and OEM document conversion products for the desktop, publishing, and office automation markets. The company's initial offerings were DOS products directed at the typesetting market. Translation using Blueberry's proprietary internal format allows formatted material prepared using many different software tools to be converted into other formats, eliminating the need for rekeyboarding, scanning, or reformatting material. Identifying an unmet market for a filtering product in the UNIX field, the company began development of UNIX products in April 1987 and broadened its market focus to include office automation and electronic publishing segments with its Filtrix product.
During the Nineties, Blueberry expanded its retail product by partnering with
companies such as Applix, Island Software, Clarity, DocuPro, Corel WordPerfect, and Arbortext to provide
import/export capabilities for those companies' products.
Blueberry's Filtrix is a
multi-platform application, at various times running on DEC, IBM AIX, Sun, and HP unix
platforms, as well as DOS, Windows, and Linux. Currently, Filtrix is available only on
WindowsTM.
For those of you who enjoy reading a good book (as well as translating one), Mr. Beigel
is also an accomplished author who has written two hilarious books based upon his many
years in the software industry. The first book is a wickedly humorous novel of love, tragedy,
betrayal, and revenge which can be read
in its entirety by clicking Skeletons And Keys. The second book is non-fiction and tells the story of Accounting Fraud, software royalty fraud,
and Intellectual Property Theft by Arbortext, Incorporated in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
It names the company owner (Jim Sterken) and the executives (Ray Schiavone,
Dave Peralta, Jim Haggarty, Cherie Van Allen, and Joyce Svechota) who
conspired with him to commit these white collar crimes – the CEO, CFO, CIO, Controller, and
Director of Product Management. It tells how their crimes were covered up by a
Plante Moran auditor (Mark Robinson), which faciliated an
Acquisition by Parametric Technology, and eventually led to a highly suspicious
decision by an American Arbitration Association arbitrator (Kathryn J. Humphrey).
All of these villains and entities are located in the Ann Arbor/Detroit area of Michigan. This book is an action packed, death defying, throat-clutching, heart-pounding narrative
that will take you on a journey
through the polluted justice system of America and make you laugh, make you cry, and make you
shake your head in bewilderment and disgust. It can be read in its entirety (along with
supporting evidentiary exhibits) by clicking The Thieves Of Ann Arbor. |