[2][3] A 2007 acquisition placed it, according to one report, as then being the sixth largest publisher of consumer software in the United States.
"[5] The company's first offering was a modem-based business phone number service, "a database program called Directory."
When their Paris-based company partnered with Hayes Microcomputer Products they increased their range beyond Paris and France "to 62 other countries."
[4] [9][10] In 2019, Avanquest had 83 million euro in revenue[footnote] from three main segments: Memory Commander is an early DOS memory manager made by V Communications similar to the likes of QEMM, Helix Netroom or 386MAX, though much more capable.
Although PowerQuest was acquired by Symantec, which retired this software in 2009, rather than update it to run under Windows Vista, System Commander and Partition Commander have a market: competitor Paragon Software Group released a major new upgrade in 2015.