Intel and Illustra Announce Partnership for Mission Critical Applications

Strategic Insights -

Intel Corp. and Illustra Information Technologies Inc. have signed a multi-faceted partnership agreement to enable the development of mission critical, client-server applications that incorporate complex, or multimedia, data. The partnership will result in the development of a high-performance object-relational database on the Pentium architecture and multi-processor machines, as well as Windows-specific client software tools. This agreement is expected to enhance the growth of Windows NT and Intel as a premier server platform in mission critical markets, including financial services, health care, and government.

Key Takeaways:

  • The partnership aims to develop a high-performance object-relational database on the Pentium architecture and multi-processor machines.
  • The partnership will result in the development of Windows-specific client software tools.
  • The agreement is expected to enhance the growth of Windows NT and Intel as a premier server platform in mission critical markets.
  • The markets targeted by the partnership include financial services, health care, on-line services, multimedia, earth sciences, and the government/intelligence market.
  • Illustra's object-relational database management system is uniquely able to store and manage multimedia information, including video, images, time-series data, and spatial information.
  • The partnership will result in an optimized version of Illustra for Windows NT on Pentium processor-based machines.

Statistics:

  • The partnership aims to develop a high-performance database on the Pentium architecture and multi-processor machines.
  • Intel and Illustra have already been successful in bringing new media solutions to customers using the Windows NT, Intel, and Illustra platform.
  • 8 markets are targeted by the partnership, including financial services, health care, on-line services, multimedia, earth sciences, and the government/intelligence market.
  • The enhanced version of Illustra for Intel architecture-based Windows NT is scheduled to be available in August 1995.
  • The partnership will result in development of a rich set of Windows tools, including Schema Browser, Visual Basic interface to LibMI/MSQL, Visual C++ interface to LibMI/MSQL, and utilities to populate the database from external data sources.

Sources:

  • Business Wire, Dec. 6, 1994
  • Illustra Information Technologies Inc.