Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI) was an
embedded software company
founded by
Naren Gupta in 1980/1981.
Summit Partners
Summit Partners is an American private equity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on investing in technology, healthcare, life sciences and other growth industries.
Background
Summit Partners was founded in 1984 by Roe St ...
invested in 1987,
the company listed in 1990, and it was acquired by
Wind River Systems in 2000.
served as President/CEO of ISI until 1994, and as its chairman until the company was bought by their competitor
Wind River Systems in February 2000. Later he served as vice-chairman and CEO of Wind River Systems.
Products
The company's main products were:
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MATRIXx, introduced in 1983,
a
control engineering (computer aided control system design or CACSD) tool with components including XMath (an extended
MATLAB-like language) and SystemBuilder for graphical editing of block diagrams.
After the merger with Wind River the product was licensed to
MathWorks, but after an anti-trust action,
it was sold to
National Instruments. In 2018, National Instruments placed MATRIX
x into a five-year end-of-life phase, with no further support beyond 30 June 2023.
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pSOS
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, a real-time operating system for the
Motorola 68000
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microprocessor family acquired from
Software Components Group
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(SCG) for million
in 1991.
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FlexOS, a continuation of
Digital Research's
Concurrent DOS 286 and
Concurrent DOS 68K, a modular multiuser multitasking
real-time operating system (RTOS) for Motorola 68000 as well as for
Intel 186,
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and
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microprocessors designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets; acquired from
Novell
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Under the lead ...
for million in July 1994.
The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum, and shares representing 2% of the company.
References
Further reading
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External links
* {{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961228062637/http://isi.com/, title=Official website, date=December 28, 1996
1981 establishments in California
2000 disestablishments in California
2000 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies established in 1981
Software companies disestablished in 2000