Rios and Lamoreux decided to incorporate under a new name, SAPIEN Technologies, in 1990.Īlong with two former employees, Tracy Elmore and Alex Zeltser, SAPIEN decided to work on their first in-house software product, a language-independent programming editor called ECOS, designed for Microsoft Windows v2.0. After Group Telein laid off all of the company's employees, Gaertner, who had just graduated from UC Berkeley, accepted a position with IBM.
The bio-mechanical company decided to slow down software development, resulting in an almost total loss of revenue for Group Telein. By 1989, the company had seven employees, but only a single major client. The knee device was successful, and led to other projects. Group Telein wrote the software in Turbo Pascal, eventually moving their operations from their individual residences to an office in downtown Berkeley, California. The device was to be the first of its kind to feed diagnostic data directly to a computer in real-time, and Lamoreux was offered the opportunity to write the companion software. Lamoreux's father was a bio-mechanical engineer, and had developed a device to measure knee laxity (how loosely the tibia was attached to the knee joint).
The personal computer was only about 6 years old at the time, and computers were often significantly more complex and difficult to set up and maintain than today. However, to begin realizing income more quickly, the three began offering simple computer consulting services, including assisting individuals with personal computer setup, office computer setup, and so forth. Group Telein was a small computer consulting firm with the stated goal of creating their own software products. Lamoreux and Gaertner were Computer Science undergraduates at University of California Berkeley Rios has a Ph.D. SAPIEN Technologies started as Group Telein, founded by Paul Lamoreux, David Gaertner, and Ferdinand G. Founded in 1986, the company has produced a number of commercial software products under contract from various publishers, as well as its own commercial software products. SAPIEN Technologies is a privately held software company based in Napa, California.
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