KORBICOM

Korbicom is a privately owned company. Its core business is software development and subsequent commercialisation of technology-based products. The injection of software development expertise into these enterprises, together with finance, marketing, sales, strong management and administrative services, is the basis of our successful strategy... The company, then known as Compustat, started out in 1976 as a software bureau delivering an accounts receivable service to a group of pharmacies and other similar businesses. In order to provide this service, we wrote our first commercial software system in a popular computer language known as FORTRAN (Formula Translation); it was a general-purpose, compiled programming language, very well suited to numerical and scientific computing. With the good grace of the largest engineering consultants in South Africa, van Niekerk, Kleyn and Edwards, we had access to a state of the art mini-computer, General Automation 18/30 (successor of the IBM 1130,..

Primary location: Cape Town South Africa