Menlo Park, California-based Gupta Technologies Inc, developer of co-operative processing, client-server computing and Windows development tools, has opened a UK organisation in Cambridge in response to the strong growth in demand for its products. Before the set up of this new establishment, which has been in operation since June, Henley Business Software was the sole distributor of Gupta’s SQLSystem in the UK. Gupta Technologies (UK) Ltd is to provide technical support for its corporate customers – it is establishing an Extended Support Programme to provide hot-line facilities and maintenance updates. Having enrolled, customers will also be eligible to receive enhancements and upgrades to Gupta products to Gupta products at special rates. The UK company will also provide technical and marketing support for its resellers – Gupta wants to maximise on the success of Windows 3.0 with SQLWindows, its applications generator, and is app-inting value added resellers and systems integra tors to this end. In an attempt to attract the attention of Windows developers, Gupta is currently offering its SQLWindows at a comeon UKP500 until Decem ber 20, when it reverts to UKP1,300. As part of the company’s launch in the UK, Umang Gupta, president of Gupta Technologies Inc, will be flying over to host two seminars in London on October 26 to discuss co operative processing issues, cross-enterprise com puting and Windows development tools. Fifteen months ago, Gupta established offices in Munich, and the company is currently looking to set up a branch in Paris. When this has been achieved, Gupta will have distributors in each country in Western Europe – how about Eastern Europe? Gavin Whichello, managing director of Gupta UK, said the company was keen on the idea, but wanted to wait until conditions in the East were more financially stable. Worldwide to date, Gupta has OEM agreements with the likes of Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi, NCR, Nokia, Nixdorf, Philips and Siemens. On the future of the OS/2, following the battles between IBM and Microsoft over the operating system, Whichello said he thought the OS/2 had a successful future ahead and would probably soon be recognised as a sdandard. Gupta is currently preparing its new OS/2 Presentation Manager product.
