who owns Multibus? or older Intel product? document by Herb Johnson, last updated Nov 19 2007. Linked from this document which discusses the history of Multibus ownership: http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/isis.html#owner Securities and Exchanges Commission document extracts, regarding Radisys's purchase of Multibus and iRSX technology from Intel. 1) Document SC 13d/A found at Web page: http://www.secinfo.com/d1hwz.81f.htm#3tv Filed On 4/29/97 · SEC File 5-45775 · Accession Number 50863-97-32 document SC 13D/A, Amendment to General Statement of Beneficial Ownership. [basically, Intel obatined $4 million in stock from Radisys, in exchange for Intel's ownership of certain assets as described below. The "reporting person" is Intel, the "issuer" is Radisys. - Herb] Item 4. Purpose of the Transaction. The Reporting Person acquired 1,300,000 shares of Common Stock of the Issuer, and a warrant (the "Warrant") to purchase up to 300,000 additional shares of Common Stock of the Issuer, as an investment and in connection with an Asset Purchase Agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") and certain related License Agreements (the "License Agreements") dated April 29, 1996 between the Issuer and the Reporting Person pursuant to which the Reporting Person (i) sold substantially all of the assets dedicated to the design, manufacture and sale of Multibus products as set forth in the Purchase Agreement to the Issuer, and (ii) licensed certain related intellectual property to the Issuer pursuant to the License Agreements. On April 25, 1997, the Reporting Person exercised the Warrant in full, surrendered 133,333 shares covered by the Warrant in payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Warrant, and acquired 166,667 shares of Common Stock of the Issuer. --end--- ----------------------------------------------- 2) The Radisys 8-K/A report at the link below includes the statement quoted below. http://www.secinfo.com/dRqWm.9dbp.htm#3wz quote: The iRMX/Multibus Operation (OMO) has operated as a business operation of Intel Corporation. The accompanying financial statements were prepared to present the assets of OMO acquired by RadiSys Corporation, pursuant to the purchase agreement dated April 29, 1996, and the related net revenues and direct expenses of OMO. The financial statements are not intended to be a complete presentation of the results of operations of OMO. The OMO business consists of Multibus boards and related software which are sold into the Embedded Industrial Bus Computing marketplace. The principal markets for these products are in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Asia Pacific. --end quote-- Also, there is a Radisys filing as follows: http://sec.edgar-online.com/1996/11/14/00/0000893877-96-000375/Section11.asp Form:10-Q Filing Date:11/14/1996 Radisys Corp. --quote-- On April 29, 1996, the Company purchased substantially all of the assets of Intel Corporation ("Intel") that were dedicated to the design, manufacture and sale of all standard and custom Multibus I and Multibus II products ("Multibus") (collectively the "Acquisition"). In addition, pursuant to the terms of the Acquisition, Intel licensed certain Intel software to the Company. The Acquisition was accounted for using the purchase method. The results of operations for Multibus have been included in the financial statements since the date of acquisition. --end quote-- -------------------------------------------------- In addition, an online PDF document by blueprint Ventures (blueprintventures.com) by Jim Houston says that he "Led Intel’s first spin-out where patents and people were allowed to leave (Multibus. RadiSys) in 1996." www.opentechcenter.com/drupal/resources/blueprint-ventures-slides.pdf Houston was an Intel officer; he is currently a principal of BluePrint Ventures. His statement is informative in that, apparently, Intel held rights to its old technologies up until 1996. ---------------------- Herb Johnson retrotechnology.com