UniPrise Systems, Inc. was a privately held
software company with its headquarters in
Irvine, California. The company was founded in November 1993 by Joseph Perry, Randy Knapp, and Robert Mowry.
Software development, engineering and technical support were located in
North Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
UniPrise specialized in
compilers and
database products for the
Unix environment. In 1997 they signed an agreement with
Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
corporation to bundle their database monitoring software with
HP OpenView
HP OpenView is the former name for a Hewlett-Packard product family that consisted of network and systems management products. In 2007, HP OpenView was rebranded as HP BTO (''Business Technology Optimization'') Software when it became part of the ...
systems management software. As of 1998 products included:
* ''IMPERA'' – a management tool for distributed database systems.
* ''Access/DAL'' – database access middleware.
* UniPrise
PL/I for UNIX.
*
PL/I for
OpenVMS
OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. Customers using Ope ...
The company abruptly went out of business in 1998. Seventeen employees filed a lawsuit against the company's chairmen the following year, citing unpaid wages, business expenses, and benefits.
The case was settled in 2001.
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Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Defunct software companies of the United States