Digital and Compaq: A cautionary tale for IBM and Red Hat
Big mergers bring big risks: Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation, a tragicomedy Compaq proved in the early 1980s you could buy non-IBM hardware and not get fired in the process by creating a portable PC that could be lugged around by weightlifters. Ultimately, Compaq struggled trying to move up the stack into the peer-to-peer networking […]