Dvorak on whatshername

John Smith · *nix forums Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 561

http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=05/02/09/6593392

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DEC was like the old H-P -- engineering driven with reputable products and
questionable marketing. The founder of the company Ken Olsen once said that
the only reason to advertise was so your mom could know you worked for a
real company.

Along the way DEC developed one of the most formidable service organizations
in the world as well as the most powerful microprocessors available for
heavy-duty use, the Alpha chip.

In 1998 Compaq bought DEC for $9.6 billion. By buying Compaq, so Fiorina's
argument went, H-P would get hold of one of its major competitors, DEC. This
would include the Alpha chip team.

But what a difference three years of Compaq management had meant.
Essentially DEC was ruined by the time H-P came around. Over time H-P would
lose what little talent was left at DEC merger and the fabulous Alpha chip
would go into hibernation as H-P chose to stick with the over-hyped Intel
Itanium architecture for its new servers.......

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