Compaq Computer Corp is still selling off bits of its Digital Equipment Corp acquisition, and on Wednesday agreed to sell off its embedded and real-time product lines to Smart Modular Technologies Inc, a Fremont, California-based company, on undisclosed terms. The deal includes 100 engineers as well as 20 marketing sales and management people, hardware and software products and technologies. The companies also plan to cooperate on future product development.
DEC’s embedded and real-time products, focused on the OEM marketplace, included boards and systems for VME, PCI/ISA passive backplane, and CompactPCI platforms for Alpha and Intel processor architectures. It also had real-time operating system, distributed real-time, distributed network management tools and text-to-speech recognition technologies included within the division. It was based in Massachusetts and Scotland. Customers included General Electric Co. Smart has been a Compaq partner for some time. Its products include Intel, MIPS, PowerPC and StrongARM-based embedded computers.
Meanwhile, Compaq yesterday concluded the $2.3bn sale of DEC’s AltaVista division to CMGI Inc, agreed at the end of June (CI No 3,693). It’s now finally running out of pieces of DEC to sell, unless it gives up on the whole Alpha processor and Tru64 Unix technologies, which it says it won’t. DEC’s storage division, StorageWorks, is doing well and is not a target for possible sale.
