" ADD Systems has offices in Flanders, New Jersey, Montreal, Canada, and Orlando, Florida. Known jointly as the ADD Companies , we have been developing computer software for Petroleum, Propane, Gasoline and Lubricant distributors since 1973. The flagship information technology product of ADD Systems is ADD Energy ™, an operational, financial and field software system that enables our customers to streamline their operations, compete effectively, and maximize profits. This product focuses on the needs of home heat fuel dealers (fuel oil and propane) as well as gasoline and lubricant distributors. The flagship products of ADD South are PAMS and PowerSStore2 ®. Like ADD Energy these products provide comprehensive software for energy distributors, however with a focus on wholesalers and convenience store/gas station operators.

Our products first came to life in 1973 on a PDP-8/E, upgraded to the first commercially available PDP11 in 1976 and eventually to VAX running OpenVMS in late 1983. While the VAX architecture and subsequently the ALPHA met our needs perfectly, the user community was becoming more aware of UNIX, and more willing to adopt it as a bona fide commercial operating system. So we began a search for a substantial organization that could help us in our next and most complex migration yet, porting our software to UNIX.

In 1992 I met Jon Power from Sector7 and believed that I had found the partner with which to move ADD Systems forward for the foreseeable future. Sector7 provided both the services and tool sets for product migration that ADD absolutely required. At the time we had in excess of one million lines of complex VAX BASIC code, many large RMS files (which we have now replaced with relational databases), a heavy reliance on VMS system services, DCL, Forms Management, and most importantly, we wanted to have one set of source code for both OpenVMS and UNIX.

Sector7 (as promised) provided us the expertise we needed to have our Energy Management software operational on UNIX. Over time, and with the assistance of the products and services of Sector7, our Software became operational on many other popular flavors of UNIX, such as AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, UnixWare, and most recently, Linux. It is now 12 years later, and Sector7 still provides ADD Systems with expert consulting on a multitude of complex IT related issues. Both the business and personal relationships are stronger today than ever. We know that should we ever have a difficult IT issue to deal with; our friends at Sector7 will always be there to help. The high quality, long lasting relationship between our two organizations has prompted me to write this reference for the Sector7 web site."

Al Friedman
Sr. Vice President
ADD System