Huntsville, Alabama-based Intergraph Corp has filled in the background on its purchase of Daisy Systems Corp out of bankruptcy, saying that, as planned, it paid $14m – $10m in cash and $4m in shares for Daisy assets including development sites in Boulder, Colorado and Sunnyvale, California, and extensive sales and support operations in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific – and that as a result, it projects total 1991 corporate revenues of $1,250m, $150m coming from electronic design automation sales. Intergraph’s electronics business unit in Huntsville will be merged with Daisy to form Dazix, An Intergraph Company, initially operated from Huntsville. Intergraph will also integrate its electronic design products with those of Dazix using the SEE framework on both the Intergraph Clipper-based workstations and on Sparc-based machines. Daisy research and development personnel in Sunnyvale and Boulder will continue to operate in conjunction with Intergraph development staff in the US and India. Intergraph claims the deal makes it number three in the electronic design market worldwide, and adds Hitachi Ltd, Fujitsu Ltd, Siemens AG, IBM Corp, Texas Instruments Inc, Seiko Epson Corp and AT&T Co to Intergraph’s customer base.
