General Motors Corp’s Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems Corp has given fast-rising Silicon Graphics Inc another fillip by choosing the Mountain View company’s Challenge network resource servers – they use the 64-bit MIPS Technologies Inc R4400 RISC chip and scale up to 36 processors – as the basis of a new dbIntellect initiative to offer high-performance support databases and multimedia information management systems. The alliance is to provide companies with the means to sell goods on the so-called Information Superhighway and to develop multimedia marketing campaigns with parallel database servers. They see a market of some $5,500m a year and look for $250m each in sales over the next three years. Targets include telecommunications, transport, media, manufacturing, retail and the financial services markets.
