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NORTHAMPTON - DataViews Corp., a 21-year-old technology spin-off from UMass whose visualization software has been used in everything from satellites to power plants, has been sold to a division of General Electric.
DataViews is at 47 Pleasant St. and has been a subsidiary of Dynatech Corp. in Burlington since 1990. Dynatech sold it to the Fanuc Automation North America division of General Electric, based in Charlottesville, Va.
Kevin Rauch, vice president of the Fanuc division, said it bought DataViews for its "excellent technology and good customer base."
Company officials would not reveal the sale price.
DataViews' core product is "humanmachine interface" (HMI) software that translates complex mechanical activities into easy-to-read graphic images that change moment by moment. The software is used in the monitoring and control of large and complex mechanical and electronic systems.
DataViews President Andrew Copeland said having GE as "a large corporate parent" will be good for the company that for at least part of the last decade has "been...