To see how the same workstations fared in different benchmark tests, and to view results from additional workstations, visit SPEC/GPC's Web site at
www.spec.org/gpc.
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Source: SPEC/GPC benchmark results February 2000. Copyright Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.
Software developer
Diehl Graphsoft (Columbia, MD), maker of MiniCAD Vectorworks, has been acquired by software development firm
Nemetschek AG (Munich, Germany) in a transaction valued at approximately $30 million....
SGI (Mountain View, CA) has announced that it will sell its Cray vector supercomputer business to
Tera Computer (Seattle, WA). When the sale is completed, Tera will assume ownership of SGI's entire Cray product line....
Microsoft (Redmond, WA) has announced plans to develop its own video game console, codenamed the X-Box....Software developer
Kaydara (Montreal) has acquired
Triple Vision Technologies (Montreal), developer of the Mediarise family of broadcast systems, which will be integrated with Kaydara's Filmbox product suite....
Matra Datavision (Les Ulis, France) is now offering open source code for its Cas.cade geometric modeling libraries. The code, available at www.opencascade.org, is called Open Cascade....CAE software developer
LMS International (Leuven, Belgium), with the
University of Leuven and seven other high-tech companies based in the Leuven area, has co-founded
Leuven.Inc, which will serve as a knowledge-sharing vehicle between the founding organizations.... CAD/CAM/CAE systems integrators
Incat (Hemel Hempstead, UK) and
Integrated Systems Technologies (IST; Novi, Michigan) have agreed to merge their companies and operations....
CADKey Corp. (Marlborough, MA) has agreed to buy two CAD software products from
Merit Computer Solutions (UK). The new products will be marketed as CADKey Power-Pak and CADKey True Text....
Dassault Systemes (Suresnes, France) has agreed to acquire manufacturing process software developer EAI-Delta from
Engineering Animation Inc. (Ames, IA).
News is written and compiled by Jenny Donelan.