Liquidated financial systems house Trisoft Plc has had its carcass picked clean by Vistec Plc and Servo Computer Services Plc. The former gets the recently-launched Quality Workbench quality management software, while Servo takes the rest of the Trisoft business following the departure of the company’s chairman and two founders. Vistec Plc, looking to buy a company after announcing profitable year-end results in June, already owns Sphinx Level V Unix distribution, Vistec Computer Services and Vistec Financial Systems subsidiaries. Quality Workbench will be handled by a new subsidiary, IdeaGen Software Ltd. IdeaGen, initially housing five ex-Trisoft staff, will concentrate on developing and marketing the Windows product, launched in May and available for NetWare by month-end. The group policy is to move towards services and software, said Vistec director and IdeaGen chairman Stephen Beach. We’re looking for a niche market product. Vistec also acquired a call management product, Callmaster, originally commissioned as a one-off project from Trisoft by a customer that now has the source code. Servo will use Trisoft to expand its existing communications business and provide complete systems. Trisoft is a Pegasus and Tetra accountancy software reseller. Servo purchased the group’s debtors, goodwill and staff, with seven redundancies in duplicated departments. The purchase of Trisoft’s stock is still in negotiation. Financial details were not disclosed.
