Portal Software , headquartered in Cupertino, California, USA, was founded in 1985. Portal Software manufactures billing software primarily targeted at telecommunications companies and ISPs; it is one of the largest companies in its business. Portal's primary product is Portal 7. Customers of Portal Software include AOL Time Warner, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, France Télécom, iG Brazil, KPN, Orange UK, Reuters, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Sprint Canada, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, TIM, U.S. Cellular, Vodafone and XM Satellite Radio

The company was founded by John Little. Dave Labuda is the co-founder of the company, and joined the company in 1993. Dave and John together invented a massively scalable and flexible real-time enterprise software architecture which they applied to the management of customers and revenue for internet and telecom service providers.

Portal started as the first nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP), with dial-up POPs provided through an agreement with Sprint. It transformed itself into a software company in the early 90's as the World Wide Web took off and many companies were offering subscription Internet access and services and clearly needed tools like billing systems to do business. It was a marquee investment in Accel Partners' first Internet focused venture fund in 1995-1996, alongside Verisign and iPass, among others.

Portal Software was bought by Oracle corporation the 12th april 2006 for 220 million dollars. Portal becomes a unit of Oracle and continues to operate as before, but Oracle emphasizes the integration that this transaction will allow with the core products of Oracle and the already purchased products like siebel, peoplesoft(CRM), JD edwards (ERP).

External links

• Company web site

Software companies