First EXSYS sale

Press, 15 August 1984, Page 35

First EXSYS sale

Adata Software, Ltd, of Christchurch, has made the first sale of its new system, EXSYS, which runs on Data General Computers.

The first customer is the Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation and Society of New Zealand, Ltd, whose head office is in Hawera. The FCOS, with more than 700 employees and a turnover last year of SIIOM, as well as being a stock and station firm, sells motorvehicles and has department stores.

Mr Trevor Pope, the

secretary of FCOS, selected EXSYS after a three-day test of the product, an expert system. FCOS has also placed an order with Data General for the largest computer sold by Data General in New Zealand. An MV/10000 with six megabytes of main memory and 1000 megabytes (a gigabyte) of disc. Although EXSYS can easily run on a system onequarter of the size, Mr Pope has selected this larger machine because it will drive a network comprising

a large number of terminals connecting . all their branches. FCOS has more than 45,000 customers and 80,000 product lines to record. The first sale comes two weeks after the launching of EXSYS. Mr Rodger Nixon, the managing director of Adata Software, said, “EXSYS will be the only software package that FCOS will ever require as they will be able to use EXSYS to develop all their own application software.”