Thinkage Ltd.
Nature of Business:
Thinkage Ltd. offers a demonstrated expertise in the development
of software tools, particularly packages which let companies
take full advantage of Windows NT, the Internet and the World
Wide Web. Besides the quality of Thinkage's software design and
the excellence of its documentation, the company's greatest
strength is its ability to adapt to new computing systems: not
just top-popularity platforms like Windows and UNIX, but
platforms with non-standard architectures and O/S support.
Key Customers:
Bull HN and Bull SA, Air Canada, Bell Canada, General Electric,
General Motors, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, U.S.
Federal Government and the U.S. Military Services, Prentice-
Hall, Oklahoma City and many other U.S. municipalities, San
Francisco City College and many other educational institutions
Company Background and History:
Much of Thinkage's software was designed and implemented by the
Software Development Group of the University of Waterloo. A
change in university policy led to an amicable separation in
1991, when the personnel of SDG left UW to form Thinkage Ltd.
Thinkage assumed ownership of SDG's software, and benefited from
the longstanding business relationships that SDG had developed,
particularly with Bull and General Electric.
Since its creation as an independent company, Thinkage has
continued to upgrade existing software assets while adding to
our product line, especially using the Internet expertise
acquired while part of the university and Windows NT know-how
developed in various software projects on that system.
Business and Product Description:
Thinkage sees itself as the computer industry's equivalent of a
tool-and-die maker: a company that produces basic and
specialized tools to help other computer professionals make
their own products.
Thinkage provides custom consulting in several other areas:
Technical Writing - Thinkage has maintained a fully
cross-referenced on-line documentation facility for more than
twenty years. This depth of experience makes it possible for
Thinkage to offer documentation services to other companies,
both for on-line help and for conventional hard-copy manuals.
Technical writing and documentation customers include TOSC
International, Mortice Kern Systems (MKS), Prentice-Hall, SAMS,
and Sybase.
Custom Software Development - In this age of specialization,
many software consultants:
+have never worked on a mainframe computer;
+have never ported a program;
+have never touched a machine that wasn't a PC or Macintosh.
We have. Our personnel have experience on dozens of
'non-standard' systems, and we're experts at learning new ones.
Thinkage is ready to come to the aid of anyone developing
software for platforms outside the mainstream; we understand the
problems, and we have the experience to find solutions.
Thinkage has licensed other vendors to market and distribute a
number of our software packages. These include:
- MainBoss to optimize company's maintenance operations.
-The MAIL8 Electronic Mail Package
-The Thinkage ANSI C Compiler
-The Thinkage ANSI C++ Compiler
-The Thinkage ISO Pascal Compiler
-The UW Tools Package
-The FXFER File Transfer Package
Shareware:
-The C Within package
-YAY: The YACC Package
-WinYay: An interactive parser generator
Further information on any of Thinkage's software packages can
be found at: http://www.thinkage.ca and http://www.mainboss.com
Company Details
Year Established:
1991
Number of Employees:
10
Company Information
Peter Fraser
Title:
President
Area of Responsibility:
Management Executive
Telephone:
(519) 895-1860
Fax:
(519) 895-1864
Email:
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Keith Dorken
Title:
Vice President
Area of Responsibility:
Domestic Sales & Marketing
Telephone:
(519) 895-1860
Fax:
(519) 895-1864
Email:
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Products
Thinkage C Within
Thinkage Yay
YAY, which stands for Yet Another YACC, a package that generates
software to parse text input. YAY lets you describe the grammar
of the input language you want to parse and uses this grammar to
generate the parser software. In addition to the usual YACC
facilities, YAY supports LR(2) grammars (with two levels of
lookahead), and provides special 'preference' constructs that
give you more control over resolving ambiguities
Thinkage Winyay
WINYAY is a Windows NT version of Thinkage YAY. Not only does it
generate software to parse text, it provides an interactive test-
bed where you can enter input and see how your parser deals with
the input. Step by step, you can see when the parser will Shift
or Reduce, and what states it goes through during the process.
Mainboss Cmms
A CMMS software package that helps organizations manage the
maintenance of equipment and facilities. For example, it can
keep track of preventive maintenance schedules, service
contracts, problem reports, and material inventories. The
software lets you manage your people and resources more
effectively, whatever your industry.
Services