Editing C't (section)

== Popularity ==
''c't'' became widely known in 1995 when it rated the program [[SoftRAM95]]<ref>Ingo T. Storm: ''[http://www.heise.de/ct/95/11/050/ Verdichtung und Wahrheit.]'' in: ''c't.'' Hannover 1995,11, S.50. {{ISSN|0724-8679}}</ref> "[[Placebo]]-Software" in a limited test. When the German distributor of the program took legal action to prohibit this rating, ''c't'' followed up with a more extensive test showing the product had virtually no effect other than giving misleading data about system statistics. Subsequent media coverage led to SoftRAM95 being removed from the German and US markets. In a 1996 interview, Rainer Poertner, the German-born CEO of Syncronys Softcorp which released SoftRAM95, took responsibility for forcing the product's release before its development was complete.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last= Wichmann|first=Johannes|date= November 1996|title=Der Junge aus Bayern, der ins Silicon Valley ging|url= |magazine= Mc|location= Munich |publisher= Franzis Verlag | access-date= }}</ref>