Gupta Corp, saying farewell to co-founder Umang Gupta and firing 17% of its workforce (CI No 2,822) has taken its proposed new name, Centura Software Inc, from its next-generation product. Centura is a new 32-bit product line that is intended to provide customers with an evolution to second generation client-server computing. Centura, which has been integrated with SQLWindows and SQLBase, includes Gupta’s own repository, partitioning and other software components, but will also be offered with Boston, Massachusetts-based Open Environment Corp’s Entera environment for Unix development. Open Environment owns Australian development management tool company Jarrah Technologies Pty Ltd, whose TeamWindows development tool is already resold by Gupta as part of SQLWindows. Versions of the Windows-based Centura development tools will be brought to Unix via the Mainsoft Corp MainWin Windows-to-Unix translator which Gupta previously used to bring SQLWindows to Solaris. Solaris implementations of Centura will be followed by HP-UX and AIX implementations. Centura has been out on beta test for six months and will ship in March. It is not expected to impact the company’s 1996 turnover significantly. With the second generation application development market already teeming with players, Gupta says it will be working the low end, with Centura tags expected to be close to its existing $3,500 developer pricing, and no charge for run-time licences.
