Atrium Technologies Inc, the little Austin, Texas company with Dazel, the Distributed Computing Environment-based print technology, is planning to relaunch itself and reposition its product as ‘outware’. The company, which was started by Tivoli Systems Inc founder Bob Fabbio and is just about at the breakeven point, has recently received a round of venture capital reportedly worth $3.5m to $4m. It wants to pull together a world class marketing team, starting with former Powersoft Corp marketing vice- president Doug Miller, who has just joined in the same capacity. This week, Atrium announces that it is extended its technology to embrace the Windows desktop, enabling personal computers to access the Digital Equipment Corp environment. Down the line it will expand further its environment and move away from the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Computing Environment exclusively to embrace Sun Microsystems Inc’s Open Network Computing – ONC – and eventually Windows NT, starting with an NT client. Atrium says it is a more comprehensive solution than Hewlett-Packard Co/Compagnie des Machines Bull SA print technology.
