Forte Software, Inc. - FRTE- Profile

Forte Software, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports Forte, a software application development. Forte was designed to enable organisations to create applications with powerful functionality that support thousands of concurrent users with high reliability. Forte's multi-tier client server architecture increases developer productivity, business flexibility and efficient use of computing resources. The product has been adopted by customers in a wide variety of industries including banking, education, energy, finance and others. Forte supports Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, Motif, Netscape navigator and Microsoft explorer for both development and deployment. The company's customers include American Airlines, Bank of America, British Telecom, British Steel, Hewlett-Packard Company, Montreal Exchange, Colombian Stock Exchange, Mitsui Trust Bank and others. The company has international sales in the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Germany. License fees accounted for 51% of fiscal 1999 revenues and maintenance and services, 49%.