there are so many better things to spend 213 million on.
maybe it's like when someone picks up an old computer and keeps it in the garage for nostalgia sake. maybe this guy just has so much money he can do that with an entire company? because i really can't see any other reason other than nostalgia. like hell anyone in the computing world will ever buy another product from iomega. like hell any new iomega product will ever see the light of day.
My guess would be that EMC wants to enter consumer/retail channels and wants an established name/company to use when doing so. While the geeks may laugh at them, most people are either indifferent or don't know enough about them.
But most of it is probably just for distribution channels, customer service, tech support, branding, etc. It can be expensive and troublesome to set up a relatively large consumer brand from scratch.
I'm actually kind of excited about this. I'd like to see some cool stuff like consumer-grade SANs and whatnot come from this.
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wow.
who'd of seen that one coming..
there are so many better things to spend 213 million on.
maybe it's like when someone picks up an old computer and keeps it in the garage for nostalgia sake. maybe this guy just has so much money he can do that with an entire company? because i really can't see any other reason other than nostalgia. like hell anyone in the computing world will ever buy another product from iomega. like hell any new iomega product will ever see the light of day.
My guess would be that EMC wants to enter consumer/retail channels and wants an established name/company to use when doing so. While the geeks may laugh at them, most people are either indifferent or don't know enough about them.
But most of it is probably just for distribution channels, customer service, tech support, branding, etc. It can be expensive and troublesome to set up a relatively large consumer brand from scratch.
I'm actually kind of excited about this. I'd like to see some cool stuff like consumer-grade SANs and whatnot come from this.