Burlington, Massachusetts-based Symbolics Inc is working with both Digital Equipment Corp and Intel Corp to make its object-oriented development environment and database respectively Genera and Statice – available on DEC Alpha RISC and Intel P5 – or Pentium as we must learn to call it – systems by the second quarter of 1993. Symbolics will also re-work its NXP1000 application server – which currently uses the company’s 40-bit Ivory chip – to run on the Alpha RISC. The company said that Genera’s compilers and device drivers will have to be re-engineered, although it promises that compatibility will be maintained across the different versions. Symbolics plans to unbundle its various products, and it said that support for other Unix systems will follow. It has also established a new maintenance and consultation division. The company, which specialises in developing systems for complex statistical analysis, is eager to stem the flow of red ink it has been trailing, and hopes these measures will return it to profitability by the second quarter of 1993. Vice-president of development Saiid Zarrabian admitted that the company has spent the last three years in perpetual transition, desperately trying to find out what it is good at… in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started, he added.
