As part of the deal: In return, HAL gave Fujitsu access to the technology it was developing.

[2] In mid-1993, Heller resigned from his position as chairman and chief executive officer to become a consultant to Fujitsu Ltd. HAL said Heller had been developing roadmaps for Fujitsu and its subsidiaries ICL plc and Amdahl Corporation for the six months prior to his resignation, and had been less involved with HAL's daily operation.

The company produced multiple generations of computers based on microprocessors they had designed to the 64-bit SPARC V9 specification.

Their processor design, known as SPARC64, combined out-of-order execution with mainframe-style reliability, availability and serviceability features.

These products were for browsing and managing Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and World Wide Web documents and relational databases.