NJK , one of Japan’s top 30 software houses – it does $105m a year – has decided to switch its focus from its present emphasis mainly on contract programming services supply to in-house software development: to this end it has purchased 50 NEC 9801 series 16-bit micros, with another 100 to follow, and will […]
NJK , one of Japan’s top 30 software houses – it does $105m a year – has decided to switch its focus from its present emphasis mainly on contract programming services supply to in-house software development: to this end it has purchased 50 NEC 9801 series 16-bit micros, with another 100 to follow, and will connect these in a local area network to a Nippon Telegraph & Telephone -developed DIPS V30S supermini, with the aim of developing software for NTT and NTT Data Communications; its medium-term target is to have one machine per programmer, and the switch is a striking one, because traditionally, there was so little packaged software used in Japan that local software houses were – and many of them still remain – little more than body shops.
