Intergraph-SGI alliance finalisedMountain View 16 September 2000 SGI and Intergraph have finalised the terms of a strategic alliance announced in July.
Under the alliance, SGI is acquiring certain assets from Intergraph
Corporation, including Intergraph Computer Systems' award-winning Zx10 family
of Vizual Workstations and servers, which are known for their performance,
features and dependability in a Windows NT environment. The Zx10 line will
be marketed exclusively by SGI and will complement SGI's recently announced
line of Intel processor-based workstations, the Silicon Graphics 230,
Silicon Graphics 330 and Silicon Graphics 550 visual workstations
featuring VPro graphics.
The new Silicon Graphics Zx10 visual workstations and SGI Zx10 servers
can be ordered through SGI's worldwide sales channels starting today.
As part of the alliance, SGI has hired approximately 60 Intergraph
Computer Systems employees in marketing, sales and engineering that comprise a
global sales and support team for the Zx10 systems. About 35 of the employees
are engineers based in Huntsville, Ala., creating an engineering presence in
Huntsville for SGI. The alliance also extends SGI's offerings for creative and
technical users in the digital content creation, visual simulation, print and
publishing and manufacturing markets.
In addition, Intergraph's vertically focused business units will now
resell SGI's broad suite of products and services. The alliance will allow
Intergraph to increase its focus on software applications, while still
continuing to provide its customers with leading edge hardware technology
-- providing a single source for software, services and hardware with the
performance level Intergraph customers require.
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