One potential earnings short-squeeze play in the software and programming complex is Tibco Software (TIBX), which is set to release numbers on Thursday after the market close.

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One of its core products, BBX, introduced in 1985, provides application developers with software for programming.

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By renting out cloud-based computers by the hour, companies could run any OS, software or programming language on a powerful virtual machine.

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