Versyss Corp International Ltd, the international subsidiary of total system supplier Versyss Corp in the US, says it has just won several hardware contracts in Eastern Europe. The largest order, worth about $3.75m, for two of the company’s DSPC400 80386-based AT-compatible personal computers, comes from Czechoslovakia’s Komercni Bank. The systems are also being used for currency exchange processing at Prague Airport and custom posts on the borders, and another five hundred machines are being added to the network. The Versyss group manufactures hardware, develops software and provides support and training in vertical markets. Versyss International is based in West Drayton, Middlesex, alongside Versyss’ UK subsidiary Versyss UK Ltd. Whereas Versyss UK, like its US parent company, sells its total systems direcdly to users, Versyss International trades only through value-added resellers, with outlets in North America, Canada, South America, Nigeria, Egypt, the Middle East, the Far East, Japan, Australia, throughout the EC and now Eastern Europe. A new distributor – Investronic – has just been appointed in Moscow to look after the existing user base companies requiring mid-sized 32- to 64-user systems. Following the deregulation by the US authorities of computer technology, however, Investronic has just taken on Versyss’ Unix-based Model 150 80386-based file servers, which support up to 16 users. Says marketing manager George Gee – that’s short for Gasiorowski Versyss International is sharply focused on Eastern Europe now that the commercial and business frontiers have come down, and more links are being forged which should emerge in the next six months – the company is also about to announce another big East European order. And Gee reports that the $100m-a-year international operation is also poised to move in on the rest of the European market come 1992.
