Umang Gupta, a Silicon Valley executive who helped drive two trends in business software while blazing a trail for Indian-born entrepreneurs, died Tuesday at his home in San Mateo. He was 73.
‘Umang was an exceptional leader who could bring a group from chaos to calmness.’ Umang Gupta, a Silicon Valley executive who helped drive two trends in business software while blazing a trail for Indian-born entrepreneurs, died Tuesday at his home in San Mateo, California. He was 73.
Gupta had a ringside seat as one of Oracle’s early employees, taking credit for writing the company’s first formal business plan in 1981. In 1984, he left to start a competing company, Gupta Technologies, which offered one of the first databases for PCs and programming tools that allowed companies to write applications to run their businesses in a client-server style.
Unlike most other companies of the era, he chose to run the software online and sell it as a subscription service, a business model that now dominates enterprise computing. Members of the IIT group included figures from industry, academia and the investment community who could often strongly disagree with one another on a range of topics, said Gunjan Bagla, the chief executive of the consultancy Amritt, who helped lead the group with Gupta.Umang Gupta was born on Aug. 3, 1949, in Patiala, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, to Ved Prakash Gupta, who worked at India’s labor ministry, and Ramnika Gupta, a politician.
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