Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA’s Olivetti Systems & Networks on Friday revealed a joint research and development agreement with Digital Equipment Corp to bring multimedia products to market. No financial terms are being disclosed but DEC will put up long-term funding to finance some of the work that will be carried out at the Olivetti Research Laboratory in Cambridge, UK. The particular technologies initially involved appear to be Olivetti’s infra-red tagging active badges and the Pandora project, which involves multimedia products on workstations. DEC will have commercial rights to technologies and systems developed by Olivetti Research Laboratories in what is clearly a long-term and deepening relationship between the two – DEC already sources all its personal computers for Europe from Olivetti and is marketing its Walkstation notebook computers on a worldwide basis.
