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akirby on Feb 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Go...

DEC was based in Maynard, MA not CA. We had a couple excellent teams in the Bay area that were acquired from Xerox as I recall. The Systems Research Center in Palo Alto and WRL.

AltaVista was not the only business that DEC failed to capitalize on. We had an $800M networking business when Cisco was just starting. DEC defunded that business to invest more in other projects. We had a storage server business that we sold to a little company call EMC too. It's quite sad...

sytelus on Feb 19, 2019 | [–]

Number of things DEC missed out on: personal computer, DOS, search engine, networking, storage.

How can something having so much lead keep missing out on so big? What they could have done differently?

syn0byte on Feb 15, 2019 | [–]

20 years later, SSD drives are eating "enterprise storage" companies alive. Time marches on...

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