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Subject: Re: Wang

Posted By: Thomas Junker
Date: 1/11/98 at 1:32 a.m.

In Response To: Dr. AN WANG AND WANG LABORATORIES (Thomas Junker)

Subject: Re: Wang

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 01:32:24 -0500

On 10 Jan 98 at 23:34, xxxx wrote:

> I have to do a case analysis on Wang and I need to know if Dr. Wang
> is still alive. If he is not, do you know the year of his death?

March 24, 1990, at the age of 70.

> After Wang emerged from bankruptcy, was/is it a compay focusing on
> software or a company focusing on hardware leadership whil beefing
> up its relationships with customers through sofeware and service.

Emerging from bankruptcy Wang abandoned the concept that had built the company (innovative hardware development -- Wang Laboratories had been one of the prominent R&D centers in the U.S., responsible for the development and introduction of several major technologies that shaped the present) and embarked on a course of building a new software and service-oriented business. It's not clear how well-formed the plan was, but it has solidified considerably in subsequent years, and Wang is now in the "network services" business, having experimented with and sold off an imaging software and product business.

> I have my thought but I am not the Wang guru. Can they actually
> be a hardware leader this late in the game behind all the other
> hardware makers.

Leader, no, not very easily. What they *can* do, if they have the determination, is leverage the engineering and development already done by taking advantage of the latest chip fabrication technology, while very efficiently doing relatively small amounts of engineering improvement that produce very large results for the money invested. This course of action is what produced the VS6230, VS12650, VS16750/850 and, sometime later this year (it is hoped), the VS18000. This last is an engineering advance from the VS16850, taking advantage of .25-micron chip fabrication technology, whose principal result is greater speed, with less-visible improvements to instruction pipelining and memory caching.

> If there are any other web sights that can give me more info on
> the the info that I need, please send them to me as soon as
> possible, my analysis is due Tuesday.

Most of the Wang resources I've found are contained in the form of links in my Unofficial Wang VS Information Center Web pages. Some other links are:

The goldmines of historical timeline information including many
key dates in Dr. Wang's career and company history:

http://www.dotpoint.com/xnumber/frame_timeline.htm

http://www.lhbe.edu.on.ca/teach2000/onramp/timeline.html

Other links, including some that contain photos of Dr. Wang:
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http://interprep.com/datebook/date0202.htm

http://world.std.com/~jrward/pens/biblio88.html

http://www.dotpoint.com/xnumber/anwang.htm

http://www.nsfre.org/awards/previous2.html

http://www.rrcc.cccoes.edu/cmpsrvc/lrnmtrl/vidcat.html

http://www.usa1.com/wlinks/bciv/bciv.html

http://www.pafb.af.mil/deomi/asi.htm

http://www.icis.on.ca/home/success/question.htm

http://www.visi.com/~nathan/humor/life/lifeb.l.html

http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/86/53047.html

http://hydrogen.cis.umassd.edu/~gleung/nacaf/naca6.html

http://hydrogen.cis.umassd.edu/~gleung/nacaf/naca61.html

http://www.ddj.com/dddu/1994/1994.05/ddjw0090.htm

http://www.uk.infowin.org/ACTS/ANALYSYS/CONCERTATION/CHAINS/si/home/ch_sid/earnshw.htm

http://thirdmil.org/tm30/linden.html

http://www.glocom.ac.jp/lib/newsletter/NL6/features.e.html

http://www.vims.edu/~jpliu/huanghe/naca2.html

http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au:81/~ewan/MBIT/

> Thanks for your help,

You're welcome. What is your project?

Regards,

Thomas Junker

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