Intergraph to Buy $100 Million in SGI Products and
Services over Three Years; SGI to Market Acclaimed Zx10 ViZual Workstations
and Servers under SGI Brand
MOUNTAIN
VIEW, CA and HUNTSVILLE, AL (July 21, 2000) -- SGI and Intergraph Corporation
announced they intend to form a strategic alliance that allows both
companies the benefit of each other's top-line products and expertise.
Under the proposed alliance, Intergraph plans to purchase $100 million
in SGI products and services over three years. In addition, SGI will
acquire certain assets from Intergraph Corporation, including Intergraph
Computer Systems' award-winning Zx10 family of ViZual Workstations and
Servers, which is known for its performance, features and dependability
in a Windows NT environment. The Zx10 line will be exclusively marketed
by SGI and will complement its recently announced line of Intel processor-based
workstations, the Silicon Graphics 230, Silicon Graphics 330 and Silicon
Graphics 550 visual workstations featuring VPro graphics.
Specific details of the alliance will be released within the next 60
days.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for both our companies," said
Greg Goelz, vice president, Workstations and IA Servers, SGI.
"SGI's mission is to deliver industry-leading products and services
to our leading-edge technical and creative customers. The Zx10 systems
complement our current product offerings very well and enable us to
expand our solution offerings for the digital content creation, print
and publishing, visual simulation and manufacturing markets. In addition,
the alliance will create a new revenue stream for SGI as Intergraph
adds the SGI product line to its portfolio."
"We've been actively seeking a strategic partner for our hardware
business, and SGI is a natural fit for us," said Jim Taylor,
Intergraph CEO. "This is a good move for Intergraph, strengthening
our strategy of providing our customers with complete end-to-end solutions,
including technical applications, systems integration, consulting and
services. By offering SGI and Intergraph technology to our customers,
we provide a single source for software, services and hardware with
the performance levels that our applications require and our customers
need."
Industry-Leading ICS Technology
Intergraph Computer Systems has developed high-performance hardware-high-end
workstations, specialty servers and digital video products-used in numerous
creative and technical disciplines. ICS was the first to bring Windows
NT OS-based workstations to market and has continued to introduce leading-edge
technology such as Wahoo Technology with Streaming Multiport Architecture,
a systems architecture specifically engineered to dramatically improve
both throughput and performance for 2D/3D graphics. The Zx10 ViZual
workstation has already received critical acclaim for its speed and
dependability, including recent news articles in Video Systems, Computer
Graphics World, Millimeter, Animation Magazine, TV Technology, Design
Graphics, CADENCE and Desktop Engineering.
SGI Visual Workstations for IRIX, Linux and Windows
SGI markets a full line of high-performance graphics workstations and
solutions, including the Silicon Graphics O2, and Silicon Graphics Octane2
visual workstations for IRIX and the aforementioned 230, 330 and 550
visual workstations for Windows and Linux. The addition of the Zx10
family of workstations and servers complements the SGI offering and
will allow the company to more fully address the needs of its customers.
About Intergraph Corporation
Intergraph Corporation is a worldwide provider of technical solutions
and systems integration. The company's vertically focused business units
develop, market and support software and services for local and national
governments and for global industries, including transportation, utilities,
communications, process plant design, mapping/GIS, photogrammetry and
public safety. Headquartered in Huntsville, Ala., with offices worldwide,
Intergraph is located on the Web at http://www.intergraph.com/ .
About SGI
SGI provides a broad range of high-performance computing and advanced
graphics solutions that enable customers to understand and conquer their
toughest computing problems. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.,
with offices worldwide, the company is located on the Web at http://www.sgi.com/.
SOURCE SGI
CO: SGI; Intergraph Corporation
ST: California, Alabama
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