Integrated Systems Inc. Explained
Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI) was an embedded software company founded by Naren Gupta in 1980/1981. Summit Partners invested in 1987, the company listed in 1990, and it was acquired by Wind River Systems in 2000.
Naren Gupta 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:
- 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 MATRIXx into a five-year end-of-life phase, with no further support beyond 30 June 2023.
- pSOS, a real-time operating system for the Motorola 68000 microprocessor family acquired from Software Components Group (SCG) for million in 1991.
- 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, 286 and 386 microprocessors designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets; acquired from Novell for million in July 1994. The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum, and shares representing 2% of the company.
Further reading
- Integrated Systems is broadening the applications for its sophisticated embedded software — and with them, the customer base. . John . Labate . 1994-12-26 . . 0015-8259 . Companies To Watch . 130 . 13 . 219–.
- Invisible Computers . Srikumar S. . Rao . Srikumar S. Rao . 1995-05-09 . . 0015-2064 .
- Wind River to buy No. 2 RTOS player . 1999-10-22 . . . News . 2022-06-14 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220614212818/https://www.edn.com/wind-river-to-buy-no-2-rtos-player/?_gl=1*djrf3p*_ga*MTI0MjU0Mzg3Ni4xNjUzNTY1MDg1*_ga_ZLV02RYCZ8*MTY1MzU2NTA4NS4xLjEuMTY1MzU2NTY1Mi4w&_ga=2.51711401.1616322055.1653565086-1242543876.1653565085 . 2022-06-14.
