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I just received the following piece of mail from Don Peterson, of
Deskstation Technologies....


> CS120-01 DESKSTATION, NEWTEK JOIN IN
>          ANTI-SGI GRAPHICS COMBINE
>
> In what promises to be the first orchestrated challenge to
> the Silicon Graphics near-monopoly of the computer graphics
> market, DeskStation Technology is forming a joint venture
> with graphics software maven NewTek to bundle its acclaimed
> 3D LightWave 4.0 program on DeskStation's NT-based Raptor
> boxes. The 50-50 joint venture, called NewTek Systems Group,
> is also expected to put a speed bump in the path of
> DeskStation's NT-on-Alpha competitors such as Aspen Systems
> and Carrera Computers who have been nibbling away at a
> market DeskStation pioneered. It will also stand as a hurdle
> to Autodesk's upcoming entry 3D Studio Max (CSN No 113) as
> well as Microsoft's own NT version of SoftImage. The venture
> is defined by both marketing and product development pacts.
> While NewTek will peddle NT-on-Intel and SGI versions of
> LightWave, the venture will handle all NT-on-RISC editions
> of the software, currently limited to Alpha and Mips
> variants.
>
> Thanks to DeskStation's processor-independent Uniflex
> technology, Raptor 3s are available with either DEC's
> performance-topping Alpha 21164 and 21064a chips or Mips
> Orions, though few are sold as Mips machines anymore. The
> venture, which will call the bundled gear NewTek Raptor
> Designer, is pledged to optimize the hardware and software
> for each other in future releases. Already it has sketched
> out the feature set of a product called Raptor Studio, due
> in the first half, that will give LightWave OpenGL support
> and nonlinear editing skills. By then there will also prob-
> ably be an application server.
>
> The companies will immediately merge their dealer bases and
> continue to get to market through third parties. Technical
> support will also be combined so that hardware and software
> can be handled in a single phone call. DeskStation president
> Don Peterson compares the systems solution underlying the
> venture to the SGI model. DeskStation, on its own, will
> continue to pursue other verticals such as CAD for its
> machines. It reckons that half its business, which will go
> into the venture, is done with LightWave and that it has
> amassed an installed base of 500-1,000 systems though
> LightWave-on-RISC NT is still in beta. Non-Raptor LightWave-
> on-NT sales will continue to be supported but only short-
> term considering that the product as it is today will
> diverge from what it will become.
>
> The venture is expected to leverage LightWave out of TV
> where it's been used for Hercules, Star Trek Voyager,
> Babylon 5 and Space Above & Beyond and into feature films
> and commercials. It intends to give SGI a run for its money
> with Raptor systems that are less than half SGI's premium
> price.

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