"Near here was Wang, Data General, Digital, Apollo, " he says from EMC's offices in Hopkinton, Mass.
"Near here was Wang, Data General, Digital, Apollo, " he says from EMC's offices in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
Big east-coast firms such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General were self-contained empires that focused on one product, mini-computers.
Digital Equipment and Data General (which inspired a bestselling book called The Soul of a New Machine) got rich selling them.
Then Digital and Data General were wiped out by the likes of Compaq, Dell and Microsoft in pcs and Sun Microsystems in Unix servers.
To do this, we used Data General minicomputers, from which we had stripped the operating software and replaced it with our own.
Intel and Microsoft grew big and ruled the planet, while the old guard of Digital Equipment, Data General and Wang were taken over, trivialized or snuffed.
Rte 128 had DEC, Data General and Wang, giant self-contained corporations that did everything from etching the silicon to building the boxes to writing the applications code.
Sure, there were impressive competitors, including HP, Data General , and even mighty IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people), but DEC was the defining force in the field.
Unfortunately for most health insurance companies other than Aetna, their behavior is reminiscent of DEC, Data General, Wang and a host of once-successful computer makers that are in the dustbin of history.
They argue that starting with Digital Equipment Corporation 50 years ago, this area has spawned more enterprise-focused companies such as Data General, EMC (EMC), Endeca, and others that are a source of valuable talent.
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Clever Wherever is a web app that geo-locates someone and warns them about dangers nearby using Department of Transport accident data, police crime data and Google places general data.
By waiting the Fed can look at the July and August employment reports and more economic data in general.
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It has made agreements to collect driving data through General Motors Co.
Of course, GPS makers aren't too interested in collecting individual users' data (at least, we hope not), but they are collecting some general data, and TomTom has now released a few of its findings.
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Mr. Brown said that the vast majority of Dataium's business involves providing general data about online car-shopping trends.
No 10 has insisted the PM was not referring to the data but to general signs of progress in the economy.
Scientists will need time to pick through the data but in general terms, the big driver here is the clash between the Arabia and Eurasia tectonic plates.
At the same time, mobile operators urgently need a Wi-Fi strategy to cater to the explosive growth of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones, tablets and mobile data devices in general.
Note that in general data is trickier than voice, and many prepaid SIM cards will not work and you may have to make a few setting changes to your phone.
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Data from the General Social Survey, for instance, shows businesses with employee stock plans laid off workers at a rate of just 2.6% in 2010, compared with 12.1% at companies without such plans.
Risk aversion is back on the table after U.S. equity markets have been nose diving for the last couple of weeks, data shows a general slowing of the global economic recovery, and QE2 comes to an end.
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Again, the purpose, said Lees, was to incorporate data into the general Windows Phone experience that other smartphone providers might wall off as separate apps, forcing people to launch an app to get access to the information contained within it.
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Using 35 years of data from the General Social Survey, two Wharton School economists, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, made the case in 2009 that women's happiness appeared to be declining over time despite their advances in the work force and education.
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The regulation currently being discussed in the context of the future European General Data Protection Regulation, whereby a maximum fine of 2% of a company's annual turnover is provided for, would, on the other hand, enable violations of data protection laws to be punished in a manner that would be felt economically.
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While the current data is sufficient for general purpose use, there is no guarantee of accuracy from Google.
When it began analyzing customer data, Dollar General found their concept of shoppers was far from reality.
However, construction companies seem to have been cutting staff and delaying hiring in recent months, according to a recent analysis of federal data by the Associated General Contractors of America.
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