History (1995): Adaptec Acquires Incat and Trillium

Adaptec (Milpitas, CA) continues its acquisition spree.

Following its purchase of Future Domain, the world leader in I/O products has acquired Incat Systems Software (Campbell, CA) and Trillium Research (Hudson, WI).

The Incat transaction was achieved with 385,078 shares of Adaptec common stock and “future financial considerations contingent upon certain performance criteria.”

Incat, a privately-held company founded in 1983, develops I/O software for CD-R.

Adaptec was already an important client for some of these products. Hewlett-Packard, a more recent customer, will bundle Incat’s Easy-CD software with its new CD-R drive.

Fabrizio Caffarelli, founder of Incat, plans to serve Adaptec as VP of strategic development.

Recently, Incat introduced what it considers the first true 32-bit CD-ROM recording software family for Windows 95 and NT.

Founded in 1992 by president Dennys Bisogno, Trillium develops RAID low-cost software for Mac systems. Adaptec intends to integrate Trillion’s Remus software and its SCSI AHA-2940WX accelerator card in order to provide a RAID product for Apple’s Power Macintosh.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠93, published on October 1995.