Early History
The company Qbik was formed in December 1995 to monetize the first for-payment version of the software which was version 1.2 (prior versions had been free). WinGate was a text-book example of near exponential growth in product popularity due to the enormous growth in Internet usage that was occurring world-wide in the mid 1990's. A feature of this was month-on-month compound growth in excess of 20% for a sustained period (several years). As demand and workload grew so quickly, Adrien de Croy turned initially to several friends to provide additional capacity, including Tim Warren (a friend from the Auckland Youth Orchestra), and Lyle Bainbridge (who started working on WinGate code with version 1.3 in early 1996). Distribution also grew as demand for WinGate caused many software distributors and resellers to take up WinGate. In 1997, Deerfield Communications Inc was appointed sole distributor world-wide. This relationship ended in 2003, with Qbik resuming distribution and support. It is commonly thought that Deerfield owned WinGate, but this was never the case.
Other key points in early history were various OEM arrangements with companies like Compaq, 3Com, Diamond Multimedia, and the Sabre Network.
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