Company Overview

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

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Thinkage Ltd.

Number of Employees: 10

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Products

• 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.

• Thinkage C Within
• 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.

• 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

NAICS Categories

• 541510 Computer Systems Design and Related Services

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