[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Neil Rieck]

>From page-294 of the book "DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC"

<quote>
In June 1998 Compaq purchased DEC for 4.5 billion.
In June 1999 Compaq sold AltaVista to CMGI for 2.3 billion.
</quote>

Is this second line correct? If so, then Compaq acquired all of DEC's
intellectual property for 2.2 Billion.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/