DEC Sold to Compaq! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Jan 1998

Well, I found out that Atari is kicking.  Has anyone heard about the game
"Primal Rage" It's copywrighted to Atari Games.

Tim D. Hotze
PS-It's my opinion that OS/2 (there making a new version) and DEC will be
around, in one form or another, for quite awhile.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Prymmer &lt;pvhp(a)forte.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: DEC Sold to Compaq!

...
 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
Subj: Re: DEC Sold to Compaq!

Richard A. Cini wrote:

>Well, you could see it coming. Poor financial performance (and hence, weak
>stock price) over the last few years. Weak products. Then, DEC sells-out the
...
  Crown Jewels
(its Alpha procesor) to Intel.

    After listening to an interview with Eckhard Pfeiffer of Compaq, they
paid $9.6 billion for DEC's customer list, not its products. He mentions
nothing about DEC's products. 
According to the scoop on DEC web pages and in comp.os.vms and various VMS
mailing list he said:

 We are committed to...investing in Digital's strategic assets, particularly
...
  its worldwide service organization, as well as its
64-bit leadership with Alpha
...
  microprocessors, OpenVMS, Digital UNIX and Windows NT
enterprise systems,
 open storage, and software products," Eckhard Pfeiffer, president and chief
...
  executive officer of Compaq, said in a statement.

And all the VMS geeks are tickled pink that he mentioned VMS first on the list
...
 of OSes and point out that DEC CEO Bob Palmer
hasn't been known to do that.

     It's a shame...but it seems to me that DEC
should have seen it coming.
Death comes to the last of the old-line computer companies. 
Well IBM is still alive and kicking (rumour is that the whole OS/2 shop has
been fired/re-assigned/real-estate liqidated but AS/400 minis and mainframes
...
 are making a strong comeback).  I Don't know much
about Unisys though...

Peter Prymmer