Quest Software, now a part of Dell, is a software manufacturer headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Founded in 1987, Quest develops, manufactures and supports software used by Information Technology (IT) professionals in a variety of industries. Although the company may be best known as the maker of TOAD, a product used by database professionals, it offers other products that develop, manage, monitor and protect packaged and custom software applications, as well as associated software infrastructure components, such as databases, application servers, operating systems and hypervisors. The company has a reputation for following IT spending trends and investing in technology areas such as virtualization, cloud automation and backup and recovery.
Quest has a worldwide presence, with more than 60 offices in 23 countries. The company reports a customer base of more than 100,000.
As of December 2011, Quest had 3,900 full-time employees worldwide and annual revenues of $857 million.
Quest sells its products and services through its direct sales organization as well as through a variety of partners and resellers worldwide.
On July 2, 2012 Dell announced that it was buying Quest Software for 2.36 billion dollars. Dell have projected net worth in software of approximately $1.2 billion. Quest Software will make up at least 75% of this figure.
Dell's acquisition of Quest Software became official on September 27th, 2012.
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