Evans & Sutherland acquires Portable Graphics Inc.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 1994--Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. (E&S) (NASDAQ/NMS:ESCC ESCC Eastern Shore Community College ESCC East Sussex County Council ESCC Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma ESCC Enhanced Serial Communication(s) Controller ESCC Electrically Self-Calibrating Cavity ) of Salt Lake City Monday announced the purchase of Portable Graphics Inc. of Austin, Texas. Under the terms of the acquisition, E&S has purchased all the stock in the company for a value of $1 million. Portable Graphics is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of E&S and continues to operate from its Austin location. The merger of E&S and Portable Graphics will position E&S as a leading supplier of GL-based software development tools, which allow applications developed in the IRIS GL IRIS GL (Integrated Raster Imaging System Graphics Library) was a proprietary graphics API created by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for producing 2D and 3D computer graphics on their IRIX-based IRIS graphical workstations. (TM) and OpenGL(TM) programming interfaces to run on all the industry's leading workstation platforms. This follows a round of strategic announcements by Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. that positions E&S as the primary supplier of high-performance 3D graphics hardware. "The acquisition of Portable Graphics adds the software expertise and market experience we need to provide world-class graphics solutions to a broad customer base," said Lloyd Turner James Lloyd Turner, or Lloyd Turner, (1885 in Elmvale, Ontario - 1976) was a Canadian sports promoter who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958 as a builder. , president of the Design Systems Division of Evans The Division of Evans was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and abolished in 1977. It was named for George Evans, an early explorer. It was located in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, including Ashfield, Croydon and Drummoyne. & Sutherland. "This announcement affirms E&S's position as the major third party supplier for leading-edge 3D graphics technology," he added. "We are very pleased with our new association with Evans & Sutherland," said Bhupi Bhasin, president of Portable Graphics Inc. "The combination of our companies' unique strengths will produce the largest source of third-party, multi-platform 3D graphics software and hardware solutions in the industry." The alliance of Portable Graphics and E&S is important to customers of both companies, including E&S's workstation partners. "We are very pleased by this announcement," said Michael A. Gallup, marketing manager for HP's Workstation Systems Group. "For HP, this merger ensures that HP customers will have both leading-edge graphics hardware and GL-based software available on our Series 700 workstations. This will strengthen HP's position in the visual analysis and styling markets." On July 18, HP announced a partnership with E&S under which E&S will provide graphics hardware and OpenGL software for HP workstations. "For Sun, the merger between E&S and Portable Graphics further extends Sun's partnership with E&S, which began in October 1992. Today, we sell and support the E&S Freedom Series to round out our own graphics family at the high end. "With this merger, software developers programming in OpenGL can now provide their applications across the entire Sun product line -- from entry level systems all the way up to the Freedom Series. We are very supportive of this merger," said Niraj Swarup, product line manager for graphics at Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. "Portable Graphics has helped us successfully port CFD-VIEW, our interactive 3D graphics, animation, and flow visualization In fluid dynamics it is critically important to see the patterns produced by flowing fluids, in order to understand them. We can appreciate this on several levels: Most fluids (air, water, etc. software to HP and Sun workstations to open up a larger market for the product. CFD-VIEW is a graphics-intensive application originally written with IRIS GL for Silicon Graphics workstations," said R. Sukumar, marketing engineer at CFD CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Corp. "The merger with E&S will offer Portable Graphics better resources and strengthen their capability to offer high quality graphics solutions to ISVs like us." Portable Graphics is a software company that develops and markets GL-related libraries and toolkits for developing 3D graphics applications on a variety of hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. . Portable Graphics' flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is NPGL NPGL Non Planar Graphics Library (TM), an IRIS GL 4.0 software-compatible library for HP, IBM, Sun, and DEC workstations. The company is currently working on OpenGL products and is also a supplier of the Inventor(TM) application toolkit. Evans & Sutherland is a leader in advanced 3D graphics and visualization systems for science, industry, education, and entertainment. The Design Systems Division provides graphics hardware and software solutions that are sold and supported by HP, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. The Division is also the supplier of CDRS (1) (Conceptual Design and Rendering System) Software from PTC that is used to test OpenGL performance. See CDRS-03 and OPC. (2) (CDRs) (Call Detail Reports) See call accounting. , the world's leading automotive styling and design software. Evans & Sutherland was founded in 1968 and is based in Salt Lake City. -0- NOTE: Freedom Series and Velocity are trademarks of Evans & Sutherland. NPGL is a trademark of Portable Graphics Inc. IRIS GL, OpenGL, and Inventor are trademarks of Silicon Graphics Inc. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City
Pat Hemrich, 801/582-5847
Portable Graphics Inc., Austin
Debbie Herrington, 512/719-8007
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