The Wollongong Group, Inc. (TWG), was one of the first companies to sell commercial software products based on the Unix operating system.
[2] Virtually all Wollongong's products were initially based on versions of software that had been developed at Universities and released into the public domain.
Wollongong products included: Individual licensing arrangements were made with brand-name vendors such as Philips for the P9000 Unix offerings, and Cray Research.
[5] These products, which they advertised in publications such as Computerworld[6][7] and Hardcopy,[8] were among the first commercially supported systems of their type, allowing people other than software developers access to the Internet.
Notable Wollongong technical staff that worked on these projects include David H. Crocker (Email), Dr. Marshall Rose (SNMP), Karl Auerbach (Netbios, SNMP), Narayan Mohanram (TCP/IP on UNIX), Jerry Scott (TCP/IP on VMS), Leo McLaughlin III and John Bartas (TCP/IP on IBM PC).