Gupta Technologies, LLC was a software development company based in Roseville,

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. It was later renamed to Centura Software in the late 1990s and then to Halo Technology Holdings, Inc in 2005. It was acquired by

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in 2006. Its principal products are the

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''SQLBase'', a mobile HTML5 enterprise development system called TD Mobile and a

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system called ''Team Developer'' (also known as ''SQLWindows''). The company is considered as the provider of the first client/server relational database software that would run on personal computers (PC), rather than mini computers.

Company history

The company was founded in 1984 by Umang Gupta, a former vice president at

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. Gupta's first product was SQLBase, followed by SQLWindows, which combined SQLBase with a

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and programming language for creating business applications. SQLWindows was one of the first GUI development tools for

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. The company went public in 1993 (NASDAQ: GPTA). The name of the company was changed to Centura Software in the late 1990s. In February 2001 Centura was taken over by the

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investment company. Centura Software filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in August 2001, and the

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revoked the registration of Centura's common stock in December 2004. After the bankruptcy, some assets were kept by a reborn Gupta Technologies LLC. In January 2005 Gupta Technologies, LLC was bought by another investor, Warp Technology Holdings, Inc. In May 2005 the company changed its name to Halo Technology Holdings, Inc. In September 2006 the company was acquired by

. In June 2010 Unify announced its merger with Daegis, a US company that provides software for electronic discovery in litigation matters. In November 2012 the Unify database and development tools division was renamed back to Gupta Technologies. In 2015 Gupta was acquired by OpenText.

References

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