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Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the down-for-the-count dept.

Esther Schindler writes "Some products just didn't deserve to die. But they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. Dearly Departed, revisits several favorites — from minicomputers to software utilities — and mourns the best and brightest that died an untimely death. What companies or products would you add? Which of them deserved to go?"

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  1. Nineteen page article... by Wannabe+Code+Monkey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    or one.

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  2. Don't like 19 pages? by n6kuy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The whole article on one page, you dumbasses.

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  3. PC Networking as a market was Re:Banyan Vines by rubies · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Novell/Banyan/3Com - all had good, competing products and all of them disappeared or were made irrelevent in short order, except for Novell I suppose, which seems to have been dying for nearly 20 years.