They develop and distribute software products concerned with [[numerical analysis]], [[business intelligence]] and data distribution.
The company's main software products is the [[World Programming System]] (WPS).<ref>{{Cite web |url=httphttps://www.worldprogramming.com/company/about |title=www.worldprogramming.com/company/about |accessdate=3 February 2012 |author=World Programming Ltd |date=2 February 2012}}</ref> The software was the subject of [[SAS Institute lawsuit with World Programming|a lawsuit by SAS Institute]]. The [[European Court of Justice|EU Court of Justice]] ruled in favor of World Programming, stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality, the programming language used and the format of the data files used by the program. It stated that there is no copyright infringement when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies, observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-02/copyright-can-t-block-software-reverse-engineering-court.html | title = Copyright Can't Block Software Reverse Engineering: Court | author = Aoife White | publisher = Bloomberg | date = 2012-05-02 | accessdate = 2012-05-02 }}</ref>
==See also==
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== External links ==
*[httphttps://www.worldprogramming.com World Programming web site]
[[Category:Software companies of the United Kingdom]]
