In January 1998, Compaq was at its height.

In 1998, Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corporation for a then-industry record of $ 9 billion USD.

By summer 1998, Compaq was suffering from product-quality problems.

Rando, senior vice president and general manager of Compaq Services, who had been said to be the heir-apparent to Pfieffer ; his division had performed strongly as it had sales of $ 1. 6 billion for the first quarter compared to $ 113 million in 1998, which met expectations and was anticipated to post accelerated and profitable growth going forward.

DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002.

The company was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry.

The Alpha architecture was sold, along with most parts of DEC, to Compaq in 1998.

* 1998 – Compaq Computer pays $ 9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

In more recent history, Digital Equipment had a large manufacturing plant near Ayr from about 1976 until the company was taken over by Compaq in 1998.

In 1998, Compaq also acquired the much larger Digital Equipment Corporation and inherited its DEC Alpha RISC servers with OpenVMS and Tru64 Unix customer bases.

Contributing to this may have been the demise of DEC, a key Modula-3 supporter ( specially when it ceased to maintain it effectively any more before DEC was sold to Compaq in 1998 ).

In addition, it was their first event in Houston in 11 years, after having previously held an event at the Compaq Center annually between 1998 and 2001.

In the U. S., price pressure from Compaq and, later, eMachines, along with continued poor showings in consumer satisfaction surveys made it difficult for the company to remain profitable and led to Alagem's departure in 1998.

In 1998, Digital was sold to Compaq and in 1999, Compaq redesigned AltaVista as a web portal, hoping to compete with Yahoo !.

In June 1998, Compaq paid AltaVista Technology Incorporated (" ATI ") $ 3. 3 million for the domain name altavista. com – Jack Marshall, cofounder of ATI, had registered the name in 1994.

In 1998 Compaq released a package known as the Integrity XC consisting of a single-system image cluster of Proliant servers with a version of UnixWare 2. 1, UnixWare NonStop Clusters.

SRC survived the takeover of DEC by Compaq in 1998.

PCI-X was developed jointly by IBM, HP, and Compaq and submitted for approval in 1998.

The original design was developed by Compaq Research ( SRC and PAAD groups ) starting in May 1998.

The Project started in May 1998, a month before the Digital Equipment Corporation merger into Compaq was completed, and a final product was brought to market in November 1999.

Though it was online as early as December 1997, the site was formally unveiled June 24, 1998 as part of an 18-month agreement between Microsoft, Compaq, and Aerial Images of Raleigh, North Carolina.

In 1998, Compaq developed the first hard drive based DAP using a 2. 5 " laptop drive.

In 1998, Compaq acquired Digital, and DECUS became a Compaq user group.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

The contents of the Darnley urn are also problematic ; they were variously reported to be the remains of a stump, bail or the outer casing of a ball, but in 1998 Darnley's 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, casting a further layer of doubt on the matter.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

This coverage was improved in 1998 with the advent of digital television in the United Kingdom allowing satellite and digital terrestrial television viewers to also view the service.

In 1998, Chaplin also received a statue in Waterville, Ireland, where he spent several summers with his family in the 1960s.

They also released a full length album soundtrack for the film He Got Game in 1998.

Flockhart also appeared on the June 29, 1998, cover of Time magazine, placed as the newest iteration in the evolution of feminism, relating to the ongoing debate about the role depicted by her character.

In 1998, Benedict learned that he also has another son, John Talbert ( born 1968 ), from an earlier relationship.

In 1998, he also succeeded Theo Waigel as chairman of the CSU.

Since 1998, it also has a tax number assigned by the state of New Jersey.

La Niña also formed in 1995 and from 1998 – 2000, and a minor one from 2000 – 2001.

In particular, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has been remade several times as Western films, such as The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as Sholay ( 1975 ) and China Gate ( 1998 ).

The financial sector, tourism ( almost 5 million visitors in 1998 ), shipping services fees, and duties on consumer goods also generate revenue.

They also include lack of infrastructure, particularly in the transportation, telecommunications, and electricity sectors, although the state telephone company and electricity distribution were privatized in 1998.

The album spawned three additional Top 10 Country hits, including two number-one hits between 1997 and 1998, " Two Pina Coladas " and " To Make You Feel My Love ", which also was a Top 10 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and was released on the soundtrack to the movie Hope Floats.

He also co-starred with Will Smith in the 1998 film Enemy of the State, where his character was reminiscent of the one from The Conversation.

Every Mac made between 1986 and 1998 has a SCSI port on the back, making external expansion easy ; also, " toaster " Compact Macs did not have easily accessible hard drive bays ( or, in the case of the Mac Plus, any hard drive bay at all ), so on those models, external SCSI disks were the only reasonable option.

It was further enhanced in projects known as H. 263v2 ( also known as H. 263 + or H. 263 1998 ), MPEG-4 Part 2 and H. 263v3 ( also known as H. 263 ++ or H. 263 2000 ).

H. 263v2 ( also known as H. 263 +, or as the 1998 version of H. 263 ) is the informal name of the second edition of the ITU-T H. 263 international video coding standard.

It has also been possible to run Novell products without IPX for some time, as they have supported both IPX and TCP / IP since NetWare reached version 5 in late 1998.

Some countries have adapted the international standard, such as the " ICD-10-AM " published in Australia in 1998 ( also used in New Zealand ), and the " ICD-10-CA " introduced in Canada in 2000.

Jaxson's antics got him into trouble in 1998 and stemmed the changing of the NFL's mascot rules, and also caused him to calm down.