Arcada Software, Inc., was a former American computer

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company, that was based in

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History

The company was formed in early 1994 by the merger of Conner Software (the software division of

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) in

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; and Astora Software (formerly

Quest Development Corporation Quest Development Corporation was a privately held software development company founded by serial entrepreneur Kevin Azzouz at a newly developed technology center in San Luis Obispo, California. Azzouz began developing a storage management and back ...

) in

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. Conner Software owned the

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brand of backup software, while Quest owned the source code behind Symantec Corporation’s

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Backup for the DOS, Windows, and Macintosh

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s of the time. In 1995, Arcada Software acquired the Sytron division of

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, to become a leader in the

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market as well. The Chief Executive Officer of Arcada Software was entrepreneur Kevin Azzouz, also the founder and President of Quest Development Corporation.

Fate

Arcada’s sales revenues grew exponentially over its two-year lifespan, until was acquired by Seagate Technologies in 1996. Seagate then spun it and the other software companies it had acquired up to that time off into a wholly owned subsidiary called

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