Significant partnership deal signed with SGI...
SGI to bundle Visigenic's VisiBroker in Irix OS
By Stannie Holt
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 10:59 AM PT, Aug 18, 1997
Silicon Graphics will bundle Visigenic's VisiBroker for Java or C++ with future versions of its Irix 64-bit operating
environment, company officials announced Friday.
VisiBroker will provide the "plumbing" for different types of machines to share Internet, intranet, and other business
applications in a multitier, flexible environment, officials said.
Silicon Graphics' choice is a major endorsement of Visigenic's version of CORBA, which could be on millions of
workstations within a year, said Pat Kremer, director of alliances for Visigenic.
It would also mean a secondary bonanza for Visigenic.
"It sets the stage for us to sell complementary and add-on products," said Randy Hietter, director product marketing at
Visigenic.
VisiBroker will be introduced as part of Irix Version 6.5, which is due out "by the end of the year," an SGI
representative said. It will be offered in Java and C++ run-time versions with the SGI Origin200 and Origin2000 servers
and the O2, Octane, and Onyx2 workstations.
These machines will be pre-configured to handle CORBA and IIOP, the native Internet Inter-ORB Protocol, sparing
users the need for extra vendors, Hietter said.
Visigenic specializes in open, distributed, object-based architecture. Oracle, Netscape, Novell, Sybase, and Gemstone
are some of the companies that have embedded Visigenic technology into their products or architecture.
Silicon Graphics Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., is at sgi.com. Visigenic Software Inc., in San Mateo, Calif.,
is at visigenic.com. |
