1 Dec
2006
1 Dec
'06
3:49 p.m.
Has anyone attempted to make a "big picture" view of the vendor
landscape by creating a chart showing spin-offs and acquisitions of
various vendors?
I find this information sprinkled throughout Wikipedia, but no
attempt at creating a "big picture" view.
Has anyone done such a thing?
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1 Dec
1 Dec
3:55 p.m.
I know there was one done about semiconductor companies descended from
Shockley but it was only current through about 2001 and it didn't cover
every company. I might have a copy of that at work.
Rich
Rich Cini
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Subject: Corporate genealogy?
Has anyone attempted to make a "big picture" view of the vendor
landscape by creating a chart showing spin-offs and acquisitions of
various vendors?
I find this information sprinkled throughout Wikipedia, but no
attempt at creating a "big picture" view.
Has anyone done such a thing?
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5:41 p.m.
In article <003b01c715a4$390f6ac0$6401a8c0 at bbrrooqpbzx6tz>,
"Richard A. Cini" <rcini at optonline.net> writes:
I know there was one done about semiconductor
companies descended from
Shockley but it was only current through about 2001 and it didn't cover
every company. I might have a copy of that at work.
I'm willing to bet that these have been done for individual 'trees',
but that there's no extant diagrammed forest of the entire sphere of
computing. This sounds like something that would be a good use of a
wiki because everyone could contribute pieces they know...
For instance I know of one company that was in Salt Lake which went
through all of these incarnations: BTS, Philips Digital Video Systems,
Thomson Digital Video Systems, Bausch Television Systems, and a couple
others I can't remember right now. In the distant past (1970s/1980s)
they made the digital hardware box that was used to create the Dire
Straits music video "Money for Nothin'".
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7IEQZSdDf0> and later they made a
digital video server product that was the backbone (and probably still
is) of the Home and Garden Channel. It served *uncompressed*
broadcast quality video. No compression artifacts!
Then there's Evans & Sutherland, which is still around, but has sold
units to Parametric Technology Corporation and Rockwell-Collins. In
addition, ex-E&S employees have founded Silicon Graphics, Inc. (James
Clark), Adobe (John Warnock) and a couple others IIRC.
Then just think of the cloud of companies surrounding the giants like
DEC, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
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6:10 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 06:55:47PM -0500, Richard A. Cini wrote:
I know there was one done about semiconductor
companies descended from
Shockley but it was only current through about 2001 and it didn't cover
every company. I might have a copy of that at work.
A friend pointed me at a chart on Wikipedia of some of the mergers that
led to BAE Systems. It includes some of the British computer companies
such as GEC, Ferranti, and English Electric:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BAE_Systems_evolution.png
Interesting to see UK aerospace following the seeming unavoidable pattern
of technology comanies in the UK: lots of engineering smarts, but not so
effective management...
Cheers,
Brian.
8:39 p.m.
In article <20061202021036.GA29252 at mail.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>,
Brian Foley <bfoley at dcs.warwick.ac.uk> writes:
A friend pointed me at a chart on Wikipedia of some of
the mergers that
led to BAE Systems. [...]
A nice example, thanks!
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