As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 29, 1996. Registration No. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 ---------------- FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT under THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ---------------- CENTURA SOFTWARE CORPORATION (formerly GUPTA CORPORATION) (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) CALIFORNIA 94-2874178 (State of Incorporation) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 1060 Marsh Road Menlo Park, California 94025 (Address of principal executive offices) -------------------- 1995 STOCK OPTION PLAN 1996 DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLAN 1992 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN (Full title of the Plan) -------------------- Samuel M. Inman President and Chief Executive Officer CENTURA SOFTWARE CORPORATION 1060 Marsh Road Menlo Park, California 94025 (415) 321-9500 (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service) -------------------- COPIES TO: MARK A. MEDEARIS JOHN V. BAUTISTA Venture Law Group 2800 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, California 94025 (415) 854-4488 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposed Proposed Title of Securities to be Registered Maximum Maximum Maximum Amount of Amount to be Offering Price Aggregate Registration Registered Per Share Offering Fee Price - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1992 Employee Stock Purchase Plan Common Stock $.01 par value, 100,000 shares $3.25 (1) $325,000 $112.07 Reserved for Issuance 1995 Stock Option Plan Common Stock $.01 par value, 1,000,000 shares $3.25 (1) $3,250,000 $1,120.69 Reserved for Grant of Additional Options 1996 Directors' Stock Option Plan Common Stock $.01 par value, 250,000 shares $3.25 (1) $812,500 $280.17 Reserved for Grant of Additional Options Common Stock $.01 par value, 250,000 shares $6.13 (2) $1,532,500 $528.45 Issuable upon Exercise of Outstanding Options TOTAL 1,600,000 shares $3.70 $5,920,000 $2,041.38 In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan(s) described herein. (1) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933 solely for the purpose of calculating the total registration fee. Computation based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock as reported in the NASDAQ National Market System on November 25, 1996 because the price at which the options to be granted in the future may be exercised is not currently determinable. (2) Computed in accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. Computation based on the weighted average per share exercise price (rounded to nearest cent) of outstanding options under the referenced plan, the shares issuable under which are registered hereby. -2- PART II: INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT ITEM 3 INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE The following documents and information heretofore filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are hereby incorporated by reference: ITEM 3(A) The Registrant's latest annual report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), which contains audited financial statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed. ITEM 3(B) All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report on Form 10-K referred to in (a) above. ITEM 3(C) The description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission under Section 12 of the Exchange Act on December 17, 1992, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Form 8-A filed on January 29, 1993, and including any further amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description. All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. ITEM 4 DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES Not Applicable. ITEM 5 INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL Certain legal matters with respect to the legality of the issuance of the Common Stock registered hereby will be passed upon for the Registrant by Venture Law Group, Menlo Park, California. As of the date of this Registration Statement, certain members of Venture Law Group and investment partnerships of which members of Venture Law Group are partners beneficially own 28,000 shares of the Registrant's Common Stock. ITEM 6 INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS The Registrant's Articles of Incorporation limit the liability of directors for monetary damages to the maximum extent permitted by California law. Such limitation of liability has no effect on the -3- availability of equitable remedies, such as injunctive relief or rescission. The Registrant's By-laws include provisions whereby the directors, officers and other agents of the Company are to be indemnified against certain liabilities to the fullest extent permitted by the California Corporations Code. Pursuant to approval of the Board of Directors, the Registrant entered into indemnification agreements with each of its current directors and officers which provide for indemnification of, and advancement of expenses to, such persons to the greatest extent permitted by the California Corporations Code, including by reason of action or inaction occurring in the past and circumstances in which indemnification and the advancement of expenses are discretionary under California law. It is the opinion of the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission that indemnification provisions such as those contained in these agreements have no effect on a director's or officer's liability under the federal securities laws. In addition, the Registrant maintains an insurance policy covering its officers and directors under which the insurer has agreed to pay, subject to certain exclusions, the amount of any claim made against the officers or directors of the Registrant for wrongful acts that such officers or directors may otherwise be required to pay or for which the Registrant is required to indemnify such officers or directors. ITEM 7 EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED Not Applicable. ITEM 8 EXHIBITS Exhibit Number ------- Document 4.0 1996 Directors' Stock Option Plan and Form of Option Agreement for use with Plan. 5.1 Opinion of Counsel as to Legality of Securities Being Registered. 23.1 Consent of Independent Accountants (see page 8). 23.2 Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1 hereto). 24.0 Power of Attorney (see page 6). ITEM 9 UNDERTAKINGS A. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement. (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the -4- securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. B. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. C. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. -5- SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant, Centura Software Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Menlo Park, State of California, on November 26, 1996. CENTURA SOFTWARE CORPORATION By: /s/Samuel M. Inman ---------------------------------------- Samuel M. Inman, President, and Chief Executive Officer POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Craig W. Johnson and Samuel M. Inman, jointly and severally, his attorneys-in-fact, each with the power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in- fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. -6- Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. Signature Title Date ---------- ----- ---- /s/SAMUEL M. INMAN President, Chief Executive Officer, November 26, 1996 - --------------------- Chairman of the Board and Director (Samuel M. Inman) (Principal Executive Officer) /s/RICHARD A. GELHAUS Chief Financial Officer (Principal November 26, 1996 - --------------------- Financial and Accounting Officer) and (Richard A. Gelhaus) Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations /s/UMANG P. GUPTA Director November 26, 1996 - --------------------- (Umang P. Gupta) /s/WILLIAM O. GRABE Director November 26, 1996 - --------------------- (William O. Grabe) /s/MAX D. HOPPER Director November 26, 1996 - --------------------- (Max D. Hopper) /s/D. BRUCE SCOTT Director November 26, 1996 - --------------------- (D. Bruce Scott) /s/ANTHONY SUN Director November 26, 1996 - --------------------- (Anthony Sun) -7- CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration statement on Form S-8 of our report dated July 15, 1996, which appears on page 35 of Gupta Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995. /s/ Price Waterhouse LLP Price Waterhouse LLP San Jose, California November 22, 1996 -8- INDEX TO EXHIBITS Exhibit Number Document - ------- -------- 4.0 1996 Directors' Stock Option Plan and Form of Option Agreement for use with Plan. 5.1 Opinion of Counsel as to Legality of Securities Being Registered. 23.1 Consent of Independent Accountants (see page 8). 23.2 Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1 hereto). 24.0 Power of Attorney (see page 6).