Amdahl Corp has taken an equity stake of an undisclosed amount in start-up software house Triada Ltd, of Ann Arbor, Michigan to boost its data warehousing offerings. Amdahl says it will use Triada’s NGRAM pattern recognition technology for the development of decision support query and analysis tools, which it will work on jointly with Triada. NGRAM technology, invented by Triada founder, mathematician Joseph Bugajski, is claimed by the company to be able to turn any standard commercial database into an intelligent database. The company’s first product, Transform-DB, has just been released, and runs initially on Sun Microsystems Inc’s Solaris systems. It reduces the size of a typical relational database using compression, performs queries and reveals information patterns. Triada’s products are aimed at OEM application developers and software builders in the database market. With Amdahl, Triada has already started work on a product code-named NGRAM SQL, which should enable users to apply structured query language to the transformed database. Triada is also working on a Data Mining application. The company has a regional office in Atlanta, Georgia.
