<PAGE>

   As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 1, 1999.
                                                  REGISTRATION NO. 333-

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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                              PUMA TECHNOLOGY, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)


            DELAWARE                                  77- 0349154
    (STATE OF INCORPORATION)             (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)


                          2550 NORTH FIRST STREET, #500
                           SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95131
                                 (408) 321-7650
   (ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF REGISTRANT'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)


                         PROXINET, INC. 1997 STOCK PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLANS)


                                   KELLY HICKS
             VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
                          2550 NORTH FIRST STREET, #500
                           SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95131
                                 (408) 321-7650
 (NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)


                                   COPIES TO:

                              SUSAN J. SKAER, ESQ.
                         GENERAL COUNSEL ASSOCIATES LLP
                               1891 LANDINGS DRIVE
                             MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043
                                 (650) 428-3900

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
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                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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<S>                                    <C>                  <C>                 <C>                 <C>
                                                               Proposed             Proposed
     Title of                           Maximum                 Maximum             Maximum
    Securities                           Amount                Offering            Aggregate              Amount of
       to be                             to be                 Price Per            Offering            Registration
    Registered                         Registered                Share               Price                   Fee
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, $.001 par
value.......................       639,217 shares (1)       $ 0.321(2)            $ 205,159(2)
    TOTAL...................       639,217 shares (1)           --                $ 205,159(2)             $57.03
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</TABLE>

(1) This subtotal represents the sum of shares issuable upon exercise of
presently outstanding options that have been granted under the ProxiNet 1997
Stock Plan and were assumed by Registrant in connection with the closing of
the merger of ProxiNet with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Puma. -

(2) Calculated in accordance with Rule 457(h) based on the aggregate exercise
price for all presently outstanding options described in note 1 above.

PART II:

       INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

       ITEM 3. INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

       The following documents and information heretofore filed by Puma
Technology, Inc. (the "Registrant") with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") are hereby incorporated by reference:

       (a) Registrant's latest annual report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to
Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), containing audited financial statements for Registrant's
latest fiscal year ended July 31, 1999.

       (b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant
document referred to in (a) above.

       (c) The description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on November 8, 1996
under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.

       All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
in this registration statement and to be a 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


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<PAGE>

       Not Applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

       Delaware law authorizes corporations to eliminate the personal
liability of directors to corporations and their stockholders for monetary
damages for breach or alleged breach of the directors' "duty of care." While
the relevant statute does not change the directors' duty of care, it enables
corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as
injunction or rescission. The statute has no effect on directors' duty of
loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional
misconduct or knowing violations of law, illegal payment of dividends and
approval of any transaction from which a director derives an improper
personal benefit.

      The Company has adopted provisions in its Certificate of Incorporation
which eliminate the personal liability of its directors to the Company and
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their
duty of care. The Bylaws of the Company provide for indemnification of its
directors, officers, employees and agents to the full extent permitted by the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the Company's state of
incorporation, including those circumstances in which indemnification would
otherwise be discretionary under Delaware law. Section 145 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for indemnification in
terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such individuals, under certain
circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred)
arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

      Not Applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
      Exhibit
      Number    Document
<S>           <C>
       4.1    ProxiNet 1997 Stock Plan

       5.1    Opinion of General Counsel Associates LLP.

       23.1   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants.

       23.2   Consent of General Counsel Associates LLP (contained in Exhibit
              5.1 hereto).

       24.1   Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to the
              Registration Statement; see page 5).
</TABLE>

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 (the "Securities Act"), each such post-effective
amendment 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.

              (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.

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<PAGE>

       B.     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes
of determining any liability under the Securities Act, 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 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 Securities 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 Securities Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.















                                      -4-
<PAGE>

                                   SIGNATURES

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant, PUMA TECHNOLOGY, INC., a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware, 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 San Jose, State of
California, on November 1, 1999.

                                       PUMA TECHNOLOGY, INC.

                                       By: /s/ Kelly Hicks
                                       Kelly Hicks, Vice President of Operations
                                       and Chief Financial Officer


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

          KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose
signature appears below constitutes and appoints Kelly Hicks, Karen Ammer and
Susan J. Skaer, jointly and severally, as his or her attorneys-in-fact, each
with the power of substitution, for him or her 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 or her substitute or
substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on November
1, 1999 in the capacities indicated.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
              SIGNATURES                              TITLE
<S>                                        <C>
         /s/Michael M. Clair               Chairman of the Board of Directors
------------------------------------
         MICHAEL M. CLAIR

         /s/Bradley A. Rowe                President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
------------------------------------       (Principal Executive Officer)
         BRADLEY A. ROWE

         /s/Kelly Hicks                    Vice President of Operations and
------------------------------------       Chief Financial Officer
         KELLY HICKS                       (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

         /s/Stephen A. Nicol               Director
------------------------------------
         STEPHEN A. NICOL

         /s/ Tyrone F. Pike                Director
------------------------------------
         TYRONE F. PIKE

         /s/M. Bruce Nakao                 Director
------------------------------------
         M. BRUCE NAKAO
</TABLE>

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<PAGE>



                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549


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                                    EXHIBITS
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                       Registration Statement on Form S-8

                              PUMA TECHNOLOGY, INC.


<PAGE>

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
  EXHIBIT
   NUMBER                    DOCUMENT
<S>           <C>
     4.1      ProxiNet 1997 Stock Plan

     5.1      Opinion of Counsel as to Legality of Securities Being Registered.

     23.1     Consent of Independent Accountants.

     23.2     Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1 hereto).

     24.2     Power of Attorney (see page 5).
</TABLE>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 1, 1999.
                                                  REGISTRATION NO. 333-

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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                              PUMA TECHNOLOGY, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

            DELAWARE                                  77- 0349154
    (STATE OF INCORPORATION)             (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

                          2550 NORTH FIRST STREET, #500
                           SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95131
                                 (408) 321-7650
   (ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF REGISTRANT'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)

                         PROXINET, INC. 1997 STOCK PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLANS)

                                   KELLY HICKS
             VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
                          2550 NORTH FIRST STREET, #500
                           SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95131
                                 (408) 321-7650
 (NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

                                   COPIES TO:

                              SUSAN J. SKAER, ESQ.
                         GENERAL COUNSEL ASSOCIATES LLP
                               1891 LANDINGS DRIVE
                             MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043
                                 (650) 428-3900

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                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Proposed             Proposed
     Title of                           Maximum                 Maximum             Maximum
    Securities                           Amount                Offering            Aggregate              Amount of
       to be                             to be                 Price Per            Offering            Registration
    Registered                         Registered                Share               Price                   Fee
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, $.001 par
value.......................       639,217 shares (1)       $ 0.321(2)            $ 205,159(2)
    TOTAL...................       639,217 shares (1)           --                $ 205,159(2)             $57.03
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) This subtotal represents the sum of shares issuable upon exercise of
presently outstanding options that have been granted under the ProxiNet 1997
Stock Plan and were assumed by Registrant in connection with the closing of
the merger of ProxiNet with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Puma. -

(2) Calculated in accordance with Rule 457(h) based on the aggregate exercise
price for all presently outstanding options described in note 1 above.

PART II:

       INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

       ITEM 3. INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

       The following documents and information heretofore filed by Puma
Technology, Inc. (the "Registrant") with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") are hereby incorporated by reference:

       (a) Registrant's latest annual report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to
Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), containing audited financial statements for Registrant's
latest fiscal year ended July 31, 1999.

       (b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant
document referred to in (a) above.

       (c) The description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on November 8, 1996
under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.

       All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
in this registration statement and to be a 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

                                      -2-
Not Applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

       Delaware law authorizes corporations to eliminate the personal
liability of directors to corporations and their stockholders for monetary
damages for breach or alleged breach of the directors' "duty of care." While
the relevant statute does not change the directors' duty of care, it enables
corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as
injunction or rescission. The statute has no effect on directors' duty of
loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional
misconduct or knowing violations of law, illegal payment of dividends and
approval of any transaction from which a director derives an improper
personal benefit.

      The Company has adopted provisions in its Certificate of Incorporation
which eliminate the personal liability of its directors to the Company and
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their
duty of care. The Bylaws of the Company provide for indemnification of its
directors, officers, employees and agents to the full extent permitted by the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the Company's state of
incorporation, including those circumstances in which indemnification would
otherwise be discretionary under Delaware law. Section 145 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for indemnification in
terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such individuals, under certain
circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred)
arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

      Not Applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS
Exhibit
      Number    Document
4.1    ProxiNet 1997 Stock Plan

       5.1    Opinion of General Counsel Associates LLP.

       23.1   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants.

       23.2   Consent of General Counsel Associates LLP (contained in Exhibit
              5.1 hereto).

       24.1   Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to the
              Registration Statement; see page 5).
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 (the "Securities Act"), each such post-effective
amendment 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.

              (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.

                                      -3-
B.     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes
of determining any liability under the Securities Act, 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 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 Securities 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 Securities Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.

                                      -4-
SIGNATURES

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant, PUMA TECHNOLOGY, INC., a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware, 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 San Jose, State of
California, on November 1, 1999.

                                       PUMA TECHNOLOGY, INC.

                                       By: /s/ Kelly Hicks
                                       Kelly Hicks, Vice President of Operations
                                       and Chief Financial Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

          KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose
signature appears below constitutes and appoints Kelly Hicks, Karen Ammer and
Susan J. Skaer, jointly and severally, as his or her attorneys-in-fact, each
with the power of substitution, for him or her 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 or her substitute or
substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on November
1, 1999 in the capacities indicated.
SIGNATURES                              TITLE
/s/Michael M. Clair               Chairman of the Board of Directors
------------------------------------
         MICHAEL M. CLAIR

         /s/Bradley A. Rowe                President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
------------------------------------       (Principal Executive Officer)
         BRADLEY A. ROWE

         /s/Kelly Hicks                    Vice President of Operations and
------------------------------------       Chief Financial Officer
         KELLY HICKS                       (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

         /s/Stephen A. Nicol               Director
------------------------------------
         STEPHEN A. NICOL

         /s/ Tyrone F. Pike                Director
------------------------------------
         TYRONE F. PIKE

         /s/M. Bruce Nakao                 Director
------------------------------------
         M. BRUCE NAKAO
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549

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                                    EXHIBITS
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                       Registration Statement on Form S-8

                              PUMA TECHNOLOGY, INC.
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT
   NUMBER                    DOCUMENT
4.1      ProxiNet 1997 Stock Plan

     5.1      Opinion of Counsel as to Legality of Securities Being Registered.

     23.1     Consent of Independent Accountants.

     23.2     Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1 hereto).

     24.2     Power of Attorney (see page 5).