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The Company...

 

TRIUS, Inc. is a privately held Massachusetts Corporation, formed in 1986 by David A. Schulz and Paris Karahalios in order to develop inexpensive, high quality software as an alternative to software produced by large, slower-to-move companies, with high overhead.  The company started with the development of powerful spreadsheet technology, competing with major players in the late 80's, and 2-D and 3-D Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) technology in the 90's.  It eventually moved into the development of GIS and Mapping Technology, producing a numbed of development tools in that area.

Over the years, software products developed by TRIUS, Inc. have been distributed in over 30 countries, in 7 languages, through a number of channels, including retail, shareware, budgetware, direct sales, site licensing, private labels, etc. 

TRIUS, Inc. has developed and/or published products in the following areas (please, read notes for explanation):

  • Spreadsheets
    As-Easy-As for Windows, As-Easy-As for DOS, Alite
    1, Potentia 102, Key Spreadsheet Plus2.

  • 2D Computer Aided Drafting
    Draft Choice for Windows, Draft Choice1, KeyCAD2, Draft Choice Plus1

  • 3D Modeling & Rendering, Animation
    ProtoCAD 3D1, Key 3D Design2, StarFlic1

  • Mapping Applications (Exclusively for Chicago Map Corp3)
    Precision Mapping, Precision Mapping Lite, QuickFinder,...

  • Mapping Tools (Exclusively for Chicago Map Corp3)
    MapOCX, MapProOCX, CanMapOCX (Canada), SAFOCX (South Africa),...

  • Mapping Tools (Published/Distributed by TRIUS, Inc.)
    TiVec, SmpMapX4

Notes:
1
Older Products (DOS only). No longer available.

2 Custom developed for publisher/distributor. Potencia 10 was a Spanish version, and Key Spreadsheet Plus, KeyCAD and Key 3D Design were developed for SoftKey International.  These were never available directly from TRIUS.  As-Easy-As for DOS was also published in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Chinese.  Alite was also published in Italian.

3 TRIUS developed these products for Chicago Map Corporation. You need to license them directly from Chicago Map (now UnderTow Software Corp.

4 The SmpMapX technology was licensed to UnderTow Software Corp.  A significantly enhanced version is now exclusively distributed by Undertow under the product name MapTivate.

 

 

 

Awards...

  • 1992 - AS-EASY-AS, Shareware Industry Awards, Best Application, Winner
  • 1992 - AS-EASY-AS, PCM Reader's Best Award, Best Shareware Program
  • 1993 - DRAFT Choice, Shareware Industry Awards, Best Graphics Program
  • 1993 - ProtoCAD 3D, Shareware Industry Awards, Best Graphics Program, Finalist
  • 1997 - TRIUS, Inc. - Inducted to Shareware Hall of Fame
  • 1998 - AS-EASY-AS for Win95/NT, Shareware Industry Award, Best Application
  • 1998 - AS-EASY-AS for Win95/NT, ZDNet Shareware Awards Finalist
  • 1999 - Paris Karahalios (President) - Inducted to Shareware Hall of Fame
  • 2001 - AS-EASY-AS, SharewareJunkies.com Awards, Best DOS Program
  • 2004 - Paris Karahalios (President) - SIAF Life Time Achievement Award