Editing Digital Equipment Corporation (section)

==== Selloffs ====
[[File:Locale_RS6_DECpc 425SE Color.JPG|thumb|[[DECpc]] 425SE Color: a notebook computer released by Digital in 1993]]
During the profitable years up until the early 1990s, DEC was a company that boasted that it never had a general layoff.<ref>Schein, ''et al'', pp. 67, 109.</ref> Following the [[Early 1990s recession|1992 economic downturn]], layoffs became regular events as the company continually downsized to try to stay afloat.<ref>Schein, ''et al'', p. 233.</ref> Palmer was tasked with the goal of bringing DEC back to profitability, which he attempted to do by changing the established DEC business culture, hiring new executives from outside the company, and selling off various non-core business units:<ref>Schein, ''et al'', pp. 128, 144, 234.</ref>
* Worldwide training was spun off to form an independent/new company called Global Knowledge Network.
* [[Oracle Rdb|Rdb]], DEC's database product, was sold to [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]].
* Rights to the [[PDP-11]] line and several PDP-11 operating systems were sold to [[Mentec]] in 1994, though DEC continued to produce some PDP-11 hardware for a few years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mentec-inc.com/|title=PDP-11 RSX RT RSTS Emulator Osprey Charon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813131029/http://www.mentec-inc.com/|archive-date=August 13, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Disk and [[Digital Linear Tape|DLT]] technologies was sold to [[Quantum Corporation]] in 1994.
* [[Text terminal]] business ([[VT100]] and its successors) was sold in August 1995 to [[Boundless Technologies]].
* [[CORBA]]-based product, ObjectBroker, and its messaging software, MessageQ, were sold to [[BEA Systems|BEA Systems, Inc]] in March 1997.
* Printer business was sold in 1997 to [[GENICOM]] (now TallyGenicom), which then produced models bearing the Digital logo.
* Networking business was sold c.1997 to [[Cabletron Systems]], and subsequently spun off as [[Digital Network Products Group]].
* [[DECtalk]] and [[DECvoice]] voice products were spun off, and eventually arrived at [[Fonix Speech Group]].