2007 is JPY's 25th Anniversary. The roots of JPY date back to 1981, when the founder, John Yardley was a research scientist in the Speech Recognition Group at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington.

NPL was one of the original pioneer establishments in computing and networking. John was also Chairman of a Real-Time specialist interest group which led to him being asked to assist a US software company called S&H, to distribute their TSX operating system in Europe. After completing his external PhD for his NPL work on Speech Recognition, John took up S&H's offer at the end of 1981, and left NPL to form JPY Associates Ltd at the start of 1982. The photograph above is our earliest recorded image, taken at the DEC User Show in 1985.

Specialising mainly in system software for the Digital PDP-11 and VAX range, JPY became involved with Apple Macintosh computers in 1987, developing and distributing products for networking. In 1990, JPY started their long and fruitful relationship with HELIOS and subsequently with Canto (2001) and Archiware (2004). In the meantime, JPY has developed a number of successful products in its own right. JPY's "spoofing" AppleTalk router designs were adopted by 3Com as part of their hugely successful OfficeConnect range.

Still led by John Yardley, JPY has maintained its commitment to leading-edge technologies in the area of networking, messaging and workflow. This tradition of innovation continues with the launch of Mail Robot X.