LINC a success story

Press, 9 March 1988, Page 34

LINC a success story

The development of the LINC software system by Peter Hoskins and Gil Simpson must be regarded as one of the most exciting New Zealand success stories in recent years.

The product, the distribution and marketing rights of which were originally sold to Burroughs for $l, will bring LINC Development Centres projected 523 million in net overseas earnings this year. LINC, the logic information network compiler, is a business information system generator which allows users to develop their own information systems.

It was born out of the inadequacies of existing computer systems, and is described by LINC Developments’ director of marketing [and public affairs, Mr Denis Breese, as

being “all the things computers were always supposed to be but never quite were.” It is projects like LINC that will hopefully develop in the Canterbury Technology Park, and people like Peter Hoskins and Gil Simpson that it hopes to attract and help. Unisys-LINC Developments is presently the only company operating in the park, and has been largely behind the park’s establishment.

the opening of LINC Stage Three coincides with the official opening of the park today. The company's faith in the park concept is illustrated by the fact that It now holds the world headquarters of Unisys-LINC Developments, and one of the largest software research and development centre outside the United States.