Multi-user board and communications supplier DigiBoard Inc, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is setting up a European operation in Cologne, Germany, which will go live next month – it currently has 40 distributors worldwide, five of them in the UK, and has just signed a deal with Group Bull SA, which will supply its range of intelligent input-output boards on its Unix systems in Europe. DigiBoard says that 70% of its market is now Unix, with some 30% of its $23m business last year being done outside the US, 11% by its OEM customers. It estimates the US and European markets for intelligent input-output board and communications products to be worth around $100m each. The firm is currently working on new RISC-based technology that will enable X Window-based systems to take advantage of multiport boards.
