Buyout Watch
Not necessarily in any order...
- Novell bought Digital Research
- Novell bought WordPerfect
- ESCOM bought Commodore.
- Adobe bought Aldus.
- IBM bought Lotus.
- Corel bought WordPerfect back from Novell
- Caldera bought Digital Research back from Novell
- Microsoft bought Blue Ribbon Soundworks (and promptly suspended all Amiga development).
- Did I read somewhere that Santa Cruz owns AT&T UNIX?
- JTS Corporation bought Atari.
- Hewlett-Packard bought Convex.
- Microsoft tried to buy Intuit.
- StarNine bought the company that made MacHTTP
- Quarterdeck bought StarNine
- Seagate bought Connor.
- Silicon Graphics bought Cray Research.
- Packard Bell bought Zenith, which means crappy computers with good monitors.
- Spindler resigns from Apple, replaced by Gil Amelio - National Semiconductor's "Captain
Comeback."
- SuperMac and Radius merge
- Schmitt resigns from Escom, replaced by Helmut Jost.
- Viscorp pretends to buy the Amiga division from Escom.
- ESCOM goes out of business
- Micropolis changed its name to StreamLogic.
- NEC and Packard Bell merge
- Gateway 2000 bought Amiga Technologies
- Almathera goes out of business because VIScorp forgot to pay them
- Apple buys NeXT and lets Steve Jobs back in
- Microsoft buys WebTV
- Apple spins off the Newton into its own company
- Exponential closes because Apple didn't need them after all
- Apple throws out Gil Amelio and lets Steve Jobs drive
- Microsoft buys Steve Jobs for $150 million
- Apple buys most of Power Computing
- AOL buys Compuserve (in a roundabout sorta way)
- Apple changes its mind and "unspins" the Newton spinoff
and the rumors:
- the Department of Justice may investigate Apple's purchase of Power Computing
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