To understand the history of Cykic Software, one really has to look at the history of Cykic's proprietary technology. For it is the technology that has put Cykic (and it's predecessors) constantly on the cutting edge of PC-based software development.

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine has been largely credited with starting the PC revolution. There was an article on a $499 build-your-own-micro-computer-kit. Three Gateley siblings and one sibling-in-law (Kit, Chris, Ned & Barb) purchased the third kit off the assembly line. This kit came with 256 BYTES of memory, no mass storage, and a front panel of switches for I/O. And, of course, NO SOFTWARE.

With an uncanny sense of what the future was to hold, our intrepid pioneers proceeded to create an operating system and language, from the first bit onwards. First, write a Teletype driver so at least the Teletype could be used for Input/Output. Write an assembler; drivers for first Radio Shack cassettes, then the first floppies; loaders; editors; then a Basic-like language Opus I. Onward into the world of multi-user, multi-tasking - TEMPOS, SOS, SQ1... By 1978, running on this same MITS ALTAIR, a complete dental accounts receivable/billing system was installed for 4 users.

And so, over the years, the technology took on different flavors, different proprietary database languages. Companies came and went, but the technology moved forward...
In 1987, Cykic Software was formed. Al Grenier (the former President of American Computer - the prior keeper of the technology) joined forces with Kit Gateley to attempt another push into the increasingly Microsoft-dominated marketplace. Taking advantage of the popularity of dBASE, FoxBASE, and Clipper, the developers created an xBASE compiler integrated into the already multi-user, multitasking, networking OS. This combination became MultiBase. MultiBase was sold for about 7 years as a multi-user option for standard xBASE-compatible applications.

In 1995, the World Wide Web started getting people's attention. Cykic turned it's efforts towards creating one of the first Web servers available for PCs - Hype-It. MultiBase was the controlling environment. It was a natural fit for the Web. The integrated database and language were perfect for a CGI interface to HTML pages.

Five years later, Cykic continues to push the boundaries of the Internet. With MultiBase as it's primary platform, Cykic has developed robot (spidering) technology, VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), e-commerce servers, mail servers, and it's dBop ASP hosting server.
And the technology continues to be upgraded and enhanced to cover current and future demands on and off the Internet.