[2] Founded in December 1983 by C. Tycho Howle and David Leach as Computer Technologies for the Home in Atlanta, Georgia, it went public in August 1995.

[1] Originally located at 1800 Century Place, the company relocated to 1055 Lenox Park Blvd.

At its peak, Harbinger had 1,100 employees, 40,000 active customers, and annual revenues exceeding $155 million.

[citation needed] After Peregrine went into bankruptcy following 2002 accounting scandals, certain lines of business purchased from Harbinger and Extricity were sold off to Golden Gate Capital and Cerberus Capital Management and ultimately renamed Inovis.

OpenText later also acquired Micro Focus which included many former Peregrine Systems products in 2023.