Visix Software Inc, developer of the Looking Glass user interface based on the X Window System, was set to sign its long-awaited bundling agreement with Intergraph Corp last week. The three year agreement is valued at $10m, and Intergraph will be bundling the software in with every system. Visix, based in Arlingon, Virginia, has been in negotiations with the big four workstation manufacturers – Sun Microsystems, DEC, Hewlett Packard and IBM – for months now, and appears to have made at least a minor breakthrough as far as DEC is concerned: DEC will be showing Looking Glass on the stand at this week’s UniForum in Boston, although there is no indication that it will actually take on the product yet. Meanwhile, having completed deals for Intel-based machines through Interactive Systems Corp and for the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series RISC processors with Pyramid Technology Inc, Visix says that it is close to signing up a company using Motorola 68000 family based hardware, and that the agreement may be announced as soon as this week.
