Company History
TRIUS, Inc. is a privately held Massachusetts Corporation, formed in 1986 in order to develop inexpensive, high quality software as an alternative to software produced by large, rigid companies, with high overhead.
Software products developed by TRIUS, Inc. have been, and are distributed in
over 30 countries, 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
2D Computer Aided Drafting
3D Modeling & Rendering, Animation
As-Easy-As
for Windows, As-Easy-As for DOS, Alite1, Potentia
102, Key Spreadsheet
Plus2.
Draft
Choice for Windows, Draft Choice1,
KeyCAD2, Draft Choice
Plus1
ProtoCAD
3D1, Key 3D
Design2,
StarFlic1
Precision
Mapping, Precision Mapping Lite, QuickFinder,...
MapOCX, MapProOCX, CanMapOCX (Canada), SAFOCX (South Africa),...
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, Inc.)4
The SmpMapX technology was licensed to Undertow Software, Inc. A significantly enhanced version is now exclusively distributed by Undertoe 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