Company Name: Apollo
Description: Apollo was established in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska. Poduska was involved in the development and manufacture of the Apollo/Domain workstations that same year. Apollo had been among the first companies that sold graphical workstations in the 1980s together companies such as Symbolics and Sun Microsystems.
A year after its inception, the company launched the workstation DN100. It was a workstation that employed the microprocessor Motorola 68000. Every one of the workstations created by Apollo is capable of running the Aegis. It would later be renamed the Domain/OS. The Domain/OS is the proprietary operating system that is packaged with a Unix alternative front-end called the POSIX-compliant.
Apollo’s efficient networking system made it one of the first companies to enable the demand-paging-over-network. The said network allows for a certain degree of transparency in the network and a low system administrator- to-machine ratio.
The Apollo workstation models have been widely used in various enterprises. The models include the DN300, DN300, DN560, DN660, DSP90 that uses a multibus backplane and I/O controllers, workstations that uses 68010, 68020, 68030, and 68040 processors, and the DN100 that used two 68000 processors and implemented the virtual memory.
Seven years after its establishment, Apollo became the world’s largest producer and manufacturer of network stations. It was in the latter part of 1987 that the company was ranked third in the market share after Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems. Apollo had still been ahead of Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
The huge client base of Apollo included companies that were recognized in their respective industries such as Mentor Graphics, Chrysler, Ford, Chicago Research and Trading, Boeing, and General Motors.
The workstations and systems designed by Apollo could be easily administered and used but they were not cost-effective because the company’s software tools were more costly than the software tools produced by other companies like Unix. In 1989, Hewlett-Packard purchased Apollo for US$476 million. Upon acquisition, Hewlett-Packard integrated most of the Apollo technologies into its series of workstations and servers referred to as HP 9000.
Apollo’s engineering center then took command of the workstation development of PA-RISC and not long after that, Apollo turned into a brand name of HP workstations called the HP Apollo 9000. Apollo had also invented the Domain Software Engineering Environment or DSEE which is a revision control system that had inspired creation of the IBM Rational Clear Case. From 1990 to 1997, Apollo was gradually closed down.
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