Best known for TOAD, a relational SQL application, Quest was founded back in 1987 and now claims to have more than 100,000 users of its various business software applications.
ChangeBase, meanwhile, offers software that automates the analysis, remediation and conversion process with applications that automatically test and fix applications before deployment to new or upgraded platforms.
Quest says that the acquisition will allow its to speed the adoption of the latest Windows platforms, browser versions and virtualization technologies. According to Shayne Higdon, the firm's general manager, from the marriage of the two firm's products, Quest will become a single strategic provider that uniquely delivers fast application migration to new platforms, devices and delivery methods, while at the same time minimizing risks and costs.
“The result is a newly empowered IT, one that is able to deliver a productive, protected, dynamic user workspace for every user on every device”, he said.