Open Inventor Availability and Licensing

Silicon Graphics Release History

There are two major releases of Inventor on Silicon Graphics platforms:

Open Inventor (Release 2.0) uses OpenGL for its rendering. It runs on all SGI platforms that support OpenGL and is currently being ported to other platforms (see Availability on Other Platforms). Open Inventor also contains many new features and improvements over IRIS Inventor.
IRIS Inventor (Release 1.x) uses IRIS GL for its rendering. It runs on all SGI platforms.

These releases of Inventor are currently available from Silicon Graphics:

Open Inventor 2.0
This is the Open Inventor release. It runs on IRIX 5.2.
IRIS Inventor 1.1.2
This release is an updated version of the 1.0.1 release of IRIS Inventor that runs on IRIX 5.1.1.
IRIS Inventor 1.0.1
This release contains fixes to bugs from the original 1.0 release of IRIS Inventor. It runs on IRIX 4.0.5.

Availability on Other Platforms

Silicon Graphics has licensed Open Inventor to 3rd party developers for the development of ports to all major Unix platforms, and to Windows and WindowsNT.

Please contact the following companies for more information:

Portable Graphics
Shelly St. John (glware@portable.com)
(512) 719-8000 One Technology Center
2201 Donley Drive, Suite 365
Austin, TX 78758
Template Graphics Systems
Robert J. Weideman, V.P. Marketing
info@tgs.com
(619) 457-5359
(619)452-2547 (fax)
NeTpower
(408) 522-5144

Open Inventor Licensing

The Inventor run time option is bundled with the SGI operating system and available on all Silicon Graphics machines. The Open Inventor Development environment can be ordered by calling your local SGI sales office, or 1-800-800-7441. Special university licenses are available through the Silicon Graphics Varsity program

gavin@sgi.com, last modified Oct 24, 1994.