EDS will be paid a fraction of the company's revenues. Market intelligence indicates that PC sales finally have turned up, but American manufacturers continue to look for ways to maximize their business. They can get cost estimates and terms as well as place orders. The company hopes the site will attract 200 new customers in its first three months of operation. The firm already has directly managed outlets in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.
Current plans call for setting up stores outside major metropolitan areas.
Its weapon is the new Intense 3D Wildcat 4000 graphics accelerator. ViZual Workstations powered by 450-MHz Pentium II processors are said to deliver the fastest 3D graphics performance for Windows NT applications. With production professionals starting to migrate to the Window NT platform, Intergraph hopes to sell 100 of the new-generation RenderRAX II systems a year. The PC server market leader does not have the advantage of any lead time on its American competitors in the enterprise computing field. Each, though, touted the ways its server line stood apart from the others.