Larry Ellison’s Foster City, California-based massively parallel systems builder nCube Corp is joining forces with object-oriented software developer IT Solutions Inc to develop corporate World Wide Web information servers intended to enable cost-effective retrieval of database information and transaction services on the Web. IT Solutions, Chicago, Illinois will design its suite of World Wide Web application development tools for the nCube family of scalable digital-media servers, and they will enable users to interface to relational databases across the Internet and take advantage of the high-bandwidth parallel capabilities of the nCube system. nCube has a similar agreement with PowerShift Inc, Austin, Texas developer of software for the interactive multimedia industry. PowerShift’s Integrated Interactive Multimedia Software will be combined with nCube’s machines to create a scalable system for both the near and full video-on-demand markets. The PowerShift software incorporates technology for subscriber scheduling, and application and content reservation.
