Quest Software Reviews - Quest Software 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 popular 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 March 9, 2012, Quest Software Inc said it is negotiating a possible acquisition by private equity firm Insight Venture Partners in a nearly $2 billion deal.[3] After a bidding war, the price went up to $2.17 billion, and Vector Capital joined Insight in the ownership group. Dell Computers is also bidding in the acquisition negotiations.
