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title: "DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation"
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# DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation

**Brand:** edgar h. scheinpeter s. delisipaul j. kampasmichael m. sonduck
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- **What is this?** DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation by edgar h. scheinpeter s. delisipaul j. kampasmichael m. sonduck
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## Customer Reviews

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    a very interesting read
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2023*

Was expecting a more technical look at DEC, but enjoyed the thorough view of the positive and negative aspects of its culture and its demise, even as the company lives on through its managers, employees and products.

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    sad tale of what might have beens
  

*by W***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2006*

One of the first computers I worked on was a Dec-10. I also used one of the PDPs. Then I later was sysadmin and wrote Fortran code for a Vax 785. So I was rather nostalgaic over DEC's demise. This would have seemed inconceivable in the mid 80s, when DEC was at its height, and second only to IBM. But Schein's analysis points out that the seeds of DEC's fall were already flourishing at its apex.One merit of the book is how it points out that it was not just Ken Olsen who made all the bad decisions. Notably that the "PC was just a toy". It was also the rest of the top management. Worsened by a complex matrix management structure. This had the effect of drastically slowing decision making.The book is a sad tale of what might have beens. For instance, it is well known how DEC missed the PC revolution. But it also dropped the ball on networking. DEC came up with DECNET by 1984. It had many very capable network engineers. But DEC's routers and switches were only for DECNET. DEC could have been DEC+Cisco, if it had migrated aggressively to the Arpanet/Internet. Sure, it had some presence in the latter. But not enough. It kept pushing its DECNET and in the end the Internet just drove DECNET into irrelevance.

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    Needed to be written, needs to be read
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2005*

I recommend this book to anyone who is familiar with DEC or wishes to understand its enduring legacies. It is also a useful case study on who a company that was doing so well could ultimately fail; are Microsoft and IBM really immune from this fate?I used DEC equipment during its heyday from the late 1970's throughout the 1980s.  What I value most is how the technical experiences I recall from that time were given depth.  The author's narrative binds together a collection of internal memos and personal recollections of many of those who were working at DEC when many of its fateful decisions were made. In general, responsibility for the ultimate failure of DEC to survive as a company is laid with the senior management, in particular with CEO Ken Olsen. The same attributes that made DEC great and innovative were the ones that lead to its downfall. Alas, DEC is not dead but lives on in all the innovations it introduced.I would like liked to have seen some more details on the technical innovations and more exposure to the myths and legends that many of us were weaned on.  But that was not the main thesis of the book so it's not a deficiency per se.Though written in a straightforward and matter of fact way with little flourish, I was engrossed and quickly polished it off. This book needed to be written.

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