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[edit] Selling furniture
The article currently says this about EMC's origins: "Originally a manufacturer of memory boards, (and before that, selling computer furniture) EMC quickly began expanding beyond memory to disk drives." The parenthetical remark about computer furniture is incorrect. The company EMC never sold computer furniture. Here is what EMC cofounder Dick Egan says on the subject:
A friend of mine from California owned an office furniture company---he'd designed a workstation specifically for computer users, and he wanted us to sell it to firms in New England. Now, Roger, I, and "C" (a third person who was involved briefly) had five electrical engineering degrees between us. We didn't want to become furniture salesmen! But with a 55% commission and enough samples to furnish our own office, we didn't refuse. We saw this as a way to make some money while we got our real business off the ground. We registered EMC Corporation; we manhandled desks into customers' elevators … and we made our seed money.
See the difference? The company that sold furniture wasn't EMC. It was an entirely different company that existed before EMC did. Egan and the other two EMC founders worked there as salesmen for a while to raise the capital that they later used to start EMC.
I'll delete the parenthetical remark and add some external links to the historical pages at the EMC official site. Pat Berry 20:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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Update required?
I agree the History section needs to be changed, I believe, as I'd always thought the name originated as per the 'trivia' section that states, "EMC Corporation" is the company's full name, shortened in the company logo by using the mathematical convention of squaring the C."
I can't find mention of the anonymous third partner anywhere on their website.
[edit] One other acquisition that is missing
Would be Conley Corp. EMC acquired them in 1998 (IIRC, the date was August or early September). I worked for Conley at the time, so I remember this very clearly. Conley was based in Cambridge, MA after moving from NYC. The Conley product that EMC wanted was SafePath. EMC sold off the other major Conley product at the same time, which was SoftRAID.
