After having had to take development and marketing of its VX and under its wing after the collapse of its partner in that area, Fremont, California-based Vicom Systems Inc, Sun Microsystems Inc is hoping for more success with its SunVision graphics software environment, which it has now turned over to Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Advanced Visual, Waltham, Massachusetts, will assume all future development and marketing of the product, and of other packages based on it, and is to integrate SunVision into its own Advanced Visualisation System. SunVision functions will be offered as AVS modules and as portable libraries for building applications on Unix workstations that support AVS. Advanced Visual has also undertaken to convert the SunVision imaging library – IPlib – and volume visualisation tool SunVoxel – for Solaris for Sun as well as to the Mountain View, Califormia firm’s XIL video and imaging software foundation library. SunVision 1.2 is available from Advanced Visual Systems now. In the past, Sun has turned over high-end graphics products to third parties because it has deemed potential growth at the high-end of that market too small to warrant its continued investment.
