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Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI)
Industry	Software
Founded	1981; 43 years ago in California, United States
Founder	Naren Gupta
Defunct	2000; 24 years ago
Fate	Acquired by Wind River Systems and ultimately by Intel
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California, USA
Products	operating systems, control design software

Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI) was an embedded software company^[1] founded by Naren Gupta in 1980/1981.^[2]^[3]^[4] Summit Partners invested in 1987,^[5] the company listed in 1990, and it was acquired by Wind River Systems in 2000.^[6]^[5]^[7]

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:

MATRIX_x, introduced in 1983,^[8] 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.^[9] After the merger with Wind River the product was licensed to MathWorks, but after an anti-trust action,^[10]^[11] 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.^[12]
pSOS, a real-time operating system for the Motorola 68000 microprocessor family acquired from Software Components Group (SCG) for US$20 million^[2] 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 US$3 million in July 1994.^[13] The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum, and shares representing 2% of the company.

References

^ Kline, David (1996-10-01). "The Embedded Internet". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 2022-05-30. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
^ ^a ^b Churbuck, David (1998-09-23) [1994-11-24]. "The Bill Gates of dishwashers". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2022-05-30. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
^ Walsh, Elizabeth T., ed. (1995). "Integrated Systems Inc.". The Corporate Directory of US Public Companies - Company Profiles and Indexes. Vol. 1995 (illustrated ed.). San Mateo, California, USA: Walker's Western Research / Springer. p. 910. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-13890-6. ISBN 1-349-13890-8. Retrieved 2022-05-30. (2664 pages)
^ Smith, Henrietta M.; Hirahara, Naomi (2003). "Vinita Gupta". Distinguished Asian American Business Leaders. Distinguished Asian Americans series (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 67–69 [68–69]. ISBN 1-57356344-7. (242 pages)
^ ^a ^b "Integrated Systems". Summit Partners. 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^ "Naren Gupta, Co-founder, Nexus Venture Partners". Indiaspora. 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^ "Wind River Agrees to Acquire Integrated Systems in Stock Deal". The Wall Street Journal. Alameda, California, USA: Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 1999-10-22. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^ Gupta, Naren; Groshans, Dan; Houtchens, Steve P. (1993). "16. MATRIX_x". In Linkens, Derek A. (ed.). CAD for Control Systems. CRC Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-00306714-6.
^ Keller, John (1997-09-01). "Boeing McDonnell standardizes on ISI software engineering tools". www.militaryaerospace.com. Sunnyvale, California, USA. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
^ Antitrust Division (2003-01-23). "Public Comments and Response on Proposed Final Judgment in United States of America v. The MathWorks, Inc. and Wind River Systems, Inc". The Federal Register - the Daily Journal of the United States Government. United States Government. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^ "Judge approves the MathWorks/Wind River settlement: The MathWorks and Wind River Agree to Sell MATRIXx Assets to National Instruments Corp". Department of Justice. 2003-03-03. Archived from the original on 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-06-14. [1]
^ Falcon, Jeannie (2021-03-12) [2018-06-21]. "MATRIXx Software Entering Five Year EOL Phase - Schedule and Migration Options". MATRIXX. National Instruments. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^ "pSOSystem and the NEST Development Environment - Designing Embedded Applications with NetWare Connectivity" (White paper). Integrated Systems, Inc. 1998. Archived from the original on 1998-02-19.

External links

Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived December 28, 1996)

[Kline_1996-1] Kline, David (1996-10-01). "The Embedded Internet". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 2022-05-30. Retrieved 2022-05-28.

[Churbuck_1994-2] Churbuck, David (1998-09-23) [1994-11-24]. "The Bill Gates of dishwashers". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2022-05-30. Retrieved 2022-05-30.

[Walsh_1995-3] Walsh, Elizabeth T., ed. (1995). "Integrated Systems Inc.". The Corporate Directory of US Public Companies - Company Profiles and Indexes. Vol. 1995 (illustrated ed.). San Mateo, California, USA: Walker's Western Research / Springer. p. 910. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-13890-6. ISBN 1-349-13890-8. Retrieved 2022-05-30. (2664 pages)

[Smith-Hirahara_2003-4] Smith, Henrietta M.; Hirahara, Naomi (2003). "Vinita Gupta". Distinguished Asian American Business Leaders. Distinguished Asian Americans series (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 67–69 [68–69]. ISBN 1-57356344-7. (242 pages)

[SummitPartners_2022-5] "Integrated Systems". Summit Partners. 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

[Indiaspora_2022-6] "Naren Gupta, Co-founder, Nexus Venture Partners". Indiaspora. 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

[WSJ_1999-7] "Wind River Agrees to Acquire Integrated Systems in Stock Deal". The Wall Street Journal. Alameda, California, USA: Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 1999-10-22. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

[Gupta-Groshans-Hautchens_1993-8] Gupta, Naren; Groshans, Dan; Houtchens, Steve P. (1993). "16. MATRIX_x". In Linkens, Derek A. (ed.). CAD for Control Systems. CRC Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-00306714-6.

[Keller_1997-9] Keller, John (1997-09-01). "Boeing McDonnell standardizes on ISI software engineering tools". www.militaryaerospace.com. Sunnyvale, California, USA. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-05-28.

[FR_2003-10] Antitrust Division (2003-01-23). "Public Comments and Response on Proposed Final Judgment in United States of America v. The MathWorks, Inc. and Wind River Systems, Inc". The Federal Register - the Daily Journal of the United States Government. United States Government. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

[DOJ_2003-11] "Judge approves the MathWorks/Wind River settlement: The MathWorks and Wind River Agree to Sell MATRIXx Assets to National Instruments Corp". Department of Justice. 2003-03-03. Archived from the original on 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-06-14. [1]

[Falcon_2018-12] Falcon, Jeannie (2021-03-12) [2018-06-21]. "MATRIXx Software Entering Five Year EOL Phase - Schedule and Migration Options". MATRIXX. National Instruments. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

[ISI_1998_pNDE-13] "pSOSystem and the NEST Development Environment - Designing Embedded Applications with NetWare Connectivity" (White paper). Integrated Systems, Inc. 1998. Archived from the original on 1998-02-19.

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