He takes over from jim taylor, one of the original founders of intergraph who came back to the company two years ago to replace longtime ceo and founder, jim meadlock. Judge rules against intel in a lawsuit the new york times. Meadlock, who lost his beloved wife and business partner nancy, is quietly retired. This is perhaps also the reason why solid edges global headquarters today continues to be in huntsville, al the home of intergraph. Windows nt server in the enterprise, said jim meadlock, ceo, intergraph. In 1969 james meadlock left his position as an engineer at ibm to found the. High techs other titan going to court but intel has. They continue to stonewall on information and samples we must have if we are to compete as a. Intergraph was second only to ibm in international sales.
Intergraph corporation develops and sells software, hardware, and services for. Most criticism leveled at intergraph stemmed from the fact that jim meadlock never seemed to do things like anyone else in the cadcam industry, nor like any other hardware software vendor. Intergraph ceo claims intel grossly misrepresented facts. Microsoft at least as powerful in the area of pc software as intel is in pc hardware, is in court with the department of justice doj. Nov 10, 1998 said jim meadlock, chairman and ceo, intergraph. Today intergraph is the sixthlargest private employer in. Hexagonintergraph, the current company, was created when those two. Meadlock and the intergraph board of directors in federal court in 1985. They were jim meadlock, his wife nancy meadlock, terry schansman the s of. Jul 24, 2019 two men whose work with ibm helped create rocket technology created a company in 1969 to provide intelligent graphics software running on enhanced terminals connected to host computers. Most criticism leveled at intergraph stemmed from the fact that jim meadlock never seemed to do things like anyone else in the cadcam industry, nor like any hardware software vendor.
This was a private effort centered on some work that the team was doing for the us army corps of engineers. Seventh intergraph worker files suit over retirement plan. Wise, a great nephew of the late admiral bull halsey, was previously chief executive officer, north america for solution 6 and directed. James meadlock, intergraph s chairman and chief executive, said the huntsville, ala. Intergraph s lawsuit against intel is a key part of the federal trade commissions antitrust investigation, but intergraph s chairman, jim meadlock, was loathe to bring the suit because he knew it. James meadlock william, 86 orange beach, al has court.
Most criticism leveled at intergraph stemmed from the fact that jim meadlock never seemed to do things like anyone else in the cadcam industry, nor like any other hardwaresoftware vendor. Intergraph ceo jim meadlock said the ftc antitrust case. Nevertheless, the company had virtually no longterm debt and continued to grow. Contending with intense competition and rapid changes in computer technology, meadlock took an aggressive stance. Intergraph ceo jim meadlock said last week that intels hardball tactics dropped the company from being the top maker of workstations to the fourth or fifth slot. It was against this backdrop that ibm engineer james meadlock, his wife nancy, and three young engineers bob thurber, terry schansman. Amfmgis solutions for the utilities industry, including communications, gas, pipeline, electric, and waterwastewater. Alabama company intergraph celebrates 50 years as a tech leader. At the time, meadlock, now chief executive officer of intergraph corp. Halsey wise stepped into the position as intergraph s ceo in july of this year.
Hexagonintergraph celebrates 50 years of innovative. Halsey wise stepped into the position as intergraphs ceo in july of this year. Intergraph corporation, founded in 1969 by james meadlock, is an american software development and services company. We have confidence in the ftc that theyre trying to look out for the industrys interests, meadlock said. Nancy broadwater meadlock passed away after an extended and difficult illness on monday, march 18, 2019, at the age of 80 with her husband by her side. Host bob pritchard interviews jim meadlock ceo intergraph. Its innovative pc workstations blended unique graphics processing designs with lowball pricing. Intergraphs steven cost says hexagon merger benefits both. Two men whose work with ibm helped create rocket technology created a company in 1969 to provide intelligent graphics software running on enhanced terminals connected to host computers. Intergraph corporation was an american software development and services company, which. Pty ltd issa is the delivering of software and services for the management and visual representation of complex and spatial information. Intergraph continues to dismantle with scanner sale ee times. Army in developing systems that would apply digital computing to real time missile guidance.
Two intergraph veterans, jim meadlock and jeff edson, along with inventors gerk huisma and nacho mazzini, hope to bring back that excitement for di. Jim meadlock, cofounder of huntsville computer design company intergraph, speaks to a 50th anniversary crowd at the companys headquarters oct. View the profiles of professionals named jim medlock on linkedin. Intergraphs new ceo can he remake the company into the. Nov 29, 2006 intergraph eschewed the notion that it competed solely in the gis software market and repositioned itself as a solutions provider, beating the drum of open standards. Former intergraph workers awarded millions in stock. His company was trying to sell intelbased workstations even as the chipmaking giant was trying to persuade customers to reject intergraph. Formed by jim meadlock, the founding ceo of intergraph corporation and lewis graham, founding ceo of zi imaging, geocue group has a long history in providing tools and technology used in creating accurate mapping products from manned aircraft sensor data. Scratch for di some of you will have fond memories of the letstakeonthebigboys attitude of longgone intergraph computer systems. Intergraph chief executive jim meadlock told cnet that his company was laying off 200 people and ceasing sales of servers and.
Intergraphs lawsuit against intel was last choice for. The group contended that although a 1972 profitsharing plan set up. Since the founding of intergraph in 1969, meadlock has served as the firms chairman. After leaving intergraph in 2002, lewis and jim meadlock his business partner founded the geocue. Wise, a great nephew of the late admiral bull halsey, was previously chief executive officer, north america for solution 6 and directed all. I am amazed at the degree to which intel ignores the court said intergraph ceo jim meadlock. Bill mcclure and dan staples in new positions solid edge. In the past, james has also been known as jim meadlock, james w meadlock, james d meadlock, james william meadlock and meadlock james william na. Keith thought about this a bit, and decided that hed rather be friends, and thereafter, intergraph acquired 50% ownership in bentley. Jim meadlock called keith bentley, and suggested that either they were going to be best friends, or they were going to become serious enemies. Instead, it opened you to miscreantinthemiddle snooping amd, boffins clash over chip dataleak claims.
Ebscohost serves thousands of libraries with premium essays, articles and other content including intergraph returns to its roots to find its future. Chapter 14 intergraph the engineering design revolution. It was only in 1980 that the name was changed to intergraph, short for interactive graphics. Nancy was born may 7th, 1938 in athens, alabama to bunyan dee broadwater and mattie pearl leopard broadwater. Hexagon intergraph, the current company, was created when those two. James meadlock president intergraph corporation one madison industrial park huntsville, al 358074201. James meadlock, intergraphs chairman and chief executive, said the huntsville, ala. Jim meadlock, intergraph s chief executive officer, said he didnt know details of the settlement but hoped it would modify intels behavior toward competitors. James meadlock overview james meadlock has been associated with one company, according to public records. Intergraph license administration tool 2014 is a full release product that installs the license manager for most intergraph 2014 software. Intergraph says intel is ignoring court injunction computer. Intergraph expects to step into the black washington. Jim meadlock, intergraphs chief executive officer, said he didnt know details of the settlement but hoped it would modify intels behavior toward competitors.
Not many people can remember where they were and what they were doing at precisely 7. Oct 30, 20 we then had a meeting with jim meadlock, ceo of intergraph, to present the plan to replace acis with parasolid in solid edge. Intergraph president jim meadlock said the companys distributed publishing system reflects a longterm strategy to build an integrated system for publishing and emerging technology cloud. At a time when cadcam providers were porting their software to two or more hardware platforms, meadlock refused to. Intergraph ceo aims to make most of fed market fcw. Intergraph ceo jim meadlock knew he was in a tough spot. The company was incorporated in florida fortythree years ago and is no longer active. In fact, one of these collaborations led to the formation of the original group that defined the las point cloud format.
Intergraph s success just when experts were predicting doom was due in part to the company s founder and chief executive officer, jim meadlock. The intergraph corporation, a maker of computer work stations and technical software, said yesterday that it had won a court order requiring intel to. Jim meadlock who was also the ceo of intergraph brought solid edge to our attention, and the rest is history. Wow, great trip down memory lane, weve been using solid edge since version 3. Intergraph plant management software is a plant maintenance software. Hexagonintergraph celebrates 50 years of innovative software. Jim suggested that if we were going to make a change this big, we should open a discussion with unigraphics about a joint business strategy. Contributing our resourcesharing technology to the microsoft services for unix addon pack was a natural next step for intergraph that further accelerates the adoption as a whole. Alabama company intergraph celebrates 50 years as a tech. One of the founders was jim meadlock, the m in the original company. Products using this licensing include but are not limited to geomedia, geomedia webmap, geomedia smart client, erdas imagine, imagine photogrammetry, erdas apollo, imagestation, pro600, stereo analyst for arcgis as well as all associated products and. The group had been working on the saturn rocket for the apollo program.
Schansman sued intergraph, its stock bonus plan, intergraph officers james and nancy b. Intergraph dictionary definition intergraph defined. I was recently asked by one of our customers to comment on the. I worked at intergraph for years and have such respect for nancy.
May 29, 2018 the group consisted of jim meadlock and terry schansman who are the m and the s in the company name besides others. Intergraph corporation article about intergraph corporation. Intergraph article about intergraph by the free dictionary. Intergraph was founded some 40 years ago in huntsville by jim meadlock, who formerly worked on the apollo program as part of ibm. Apr 14, 1998 the intergraph corporation, a maker of computer work stations and technical software, said yesterday that it had won a court order requiring intel to continue supplying it with advanced product.
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