Private company

Arcada Software

Logo: Arcada Software, Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American computer software company

Arcada Software, Inc., was an American computer software company based in California.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1994Founded1
  • Industrysoftware industry1

Arcada Software, Inc., was an American computer software company based in California.2

The story

The company was formed in early 1994 by the merger of Conner Software (the software division of Conner Peripherals) in Lake Mary, Florida; and Astora Software (formerly Quest Development Corporation) in San Luis Obispo, California.

Conner Software owned the Backup Exec brand of backup software, while Quest owned the source code behind Symantec Corporation’s Norton Antivirus Backup for the DOS, Windows, and Macintosh computing platforms of the time.

In 1995, Arcada Software acquired the Sytron division of Rexon, to become a leader in the OS/2 market as well.

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Arcada Software, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • software

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Timeline

  1. 1994Founded Founded1

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