Automotive microcontrollers are mainly bespoke chips, with many different hardware designs and different types of software tailored for each design.
Sun Microsystems Inc., whose computers run corporate Web sites, and the software maker Vignette Corporation will expand their marketing alliance and develop Internet-commerce softailoredilored to run on Sun computers.
According to Mr. Freeman, the company has developed different versions of its software tailored to a variety of existing in-car systems.
Red Hat and I.B.M. agreed to develop new versions of I.B.M. software tailored to run on Red Hat's Linux operating system.
Like Lernout & Hauspie, Systran offers customized services to corporate customers who would like translation software tailored to their particular business needs.
Mr. Morrisett of the Markle Foundation said there is a lack of software tailored to the elderly, like tax preparation programs that deal specifically with pensions.
Much of his work, he says, involves being a translator between the different vernaculars and cultures of computing and electric power, as he oversees the design and building of software tailored for utilities.
HelioScan is designed as a collection of components that can be flexibly assembled into microscope control software tailored to the particular hardware and functionality requirements.
Not wanting to watch from the sidelines as people abandon computers for smartphones, Microsoft on Friday is introducing a version of its Windows software tailored for touch-screen devices and a new tablet, the Surface.
[C13.] Equifax to Invest in Software Vendor In an alliance to be announced today, Equifax, the world's largest credit reporting agency, will invest $5 million in Seisint, a start-up vendor of computer software tailored to high-speed analysis of large databases, and deploy Seisint's technology.
Other industries have solved this problem with software tailored to the specific needs of industry users.
