Which computer company was set up in 1968 by Alan Sugar?
"Alan Sugar Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British business magnate, media personality, politician and political adviser. According to the ""Sunday Times"" Rich List, Sugar became a billionaire in 2015. In 2016 his fortune was estimated at £1.15bn, ranking him as the 95th richest person in the UK. In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the consumer electronics company Amstrad, his largest business venture. Sugar was chairman of Tottenham Hotspur from 1991 to 2001. He appears in the BBC TV series ""The Apprentice"", which has been broadcast annually since 2005. Sugar was born in"
"Amstrad Amstrad is a British electronics company. , Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky UK interactive boxes. Amstrad was founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar at the age of 21. The name is a contraction of ""Alan Michael Sugar Trading"". It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1980. During the late 1980s, Amstrad had a substantial share of the PC market in the UK. Amstrad was once a FTSE 100 Index constituent but since 2007 is wholly owned by Sky UK. The company had offices in Kings Road, Brentwood, Essex. Amstrad was founded in 1968 by Alan"
"business, saying: ""I turn 60 this year and I have had 40 years of hustling in the business, but now I have to start thinking about my team of loyal staff, many of whom have been with me for many years."" It was announced on 2 July 2008 that Sugar had stepped down as Chairman of Amstrad, which had been planned since BSkyB took over in 2007. Amstrad Amstrad is a British electronics company. , Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky UK interactive boxes. Amstrad was founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar at the age of 21. The name is"
"Sugar at the age of 21, the name of the original company being AMS Trading (Amstrad) Limited, derived from its founder's initials (Alan Michael Sugar). Amstrad entered the market in the field of consumer electronics. During the 1970s they were at the forefront of low-priced hi-fi, TV and car stereo cassette technologies. Lower prices were achieved by injection moulding plastic hi-fi turntable covers, undercutting competitors who used the vacuum forming process. Amstrad expanded to the marketing of low cost, low quality amplifiers and tuners, imported from the Far East and badged with the Amstrad name for the UK market. Their"
"an “all-in-one”, where the computer, keyboard and its data storage device were combined in a single unit, and sold with its own dedicated display monitor. Most home computers at that time such as Sinclair’s ZX series, the Commodore 64 and the BBC Micro relied on the use of the domestic television set and a separately connected tape recorder or disk drive. In itself, the all-in-one concept was not new, having been seen before on business-oriented machines and the Commodore PET, but in the home computer space, it predated the Apple Macintosh by almost a year. Secondly, Amstrad founder Alan Sugar"
"The last model had its own unique GUI operating system and set of office applications, which were included in the price. However none of the software for previous PCW models could run on this system. In 1984, Tandy Corporation executive Steve Leininger, designer of the TRS-80 Model I, admitted that ""as an industry we haven't found any compelling reason to buy a computer for the home"" other than for word processing. Amstrad's founder Alan Sugar realised that most computers in the United Kingdom were used for word processing at home, and allegedly sketched an outline design for a low cost"
"Viglen Viglen Ltd provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers, workstations and data/voice communications equipment and services. The British company was formed in 1975 by Vigen Boyadjian and was acquired by Alan Sugar (later Lord Sugar)'s company Amstrad in 1994. During the 1980s, the company specialised in direct sales through multi page advertisements in leading computer magazines, catering particularly, but not exclusively, to owners of Acorn computers. In 1997, it was listed as a public limited company, and Amstrad plc shares were split into Viglen and Betacom shares, Betacom being renamed to Amstrad PLC. Following the sale of"
"of debt. Applied Logic filed for Chapter XI bankruptcy in 1975. Applied Logic Corporation Applied Logic Corporation (AL/COM) was a time-sharing company in the 1960s and 70s. Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, AL/COM started in 1962 working on ""mathematical techniques and their applications to problem-solving."" Seeing the need for in-house time sharing the company bought a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-6 and developed its time sharing service, which came on-line in 1966. In 1968 the company registered ""AL/COM"" as a trademark for its service. The system involved both custom software and custom hardware. By 1969 Applied Logic had four DEC"
"including a line of video quiz machines produced by Bellfruit. The Flare 1 chipset was further developed into the Konix Multisystem ""Slipstream"" prototype. In 1989 Martin Brennan was contracted by Atari Corp. to complete and implement the chip design of the unreleased Atari Panther. Martin Brennan and John Mathieson went on to design the Flare II, which was purchased by Atari and became Atari Jaguar. Flare Technology Flare Technology was a computer hardware company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1986 by Martin Brennan, Ben Cheese, and John Mathieson, former engineers at Sinclair Research. Flare Technology first"
"Alan Miller (game designer) Alan Miller is an early game designer and programmer for the Atari 2600 who co-founded video game companies Activision and Accolade. Miller studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1973. Miller joined Atari, Inc. in February 1977 and was one of the first four Atari 2600 game designers. His 2600 titles include ""Surround"", ""Hunt & Score"", ""Hangman"" and ""Basketball"". With others, he co-authored the operating system for the Atari 400/800 computers in late 1978 and early 1979. His last game for Atari, ""Basketball"", was one of the first ROM"
"Daniel Roth claims that the failure of the network computer eventually led to the development of cloud computing. A large contribution to this transition was attributed to Eric Schmidt, once the CTO of Sun Microsystems, a proponent of the network computer, who eventually became the CEO of Google. Google is a large purveyor of cloud technology, ""most notably Google Docs and Spreadsheets."" Network Computer The Network Computer (or NC) was a diskless desktop computer device made by Oracle Corporation from about 1996 to 2000. The devices were designed and manufactured by an alliance, which included Sun Microsystems, IBM, and others."
"contract manufacturers. In 2015, Acer was the sixth-largest personal computer vendor in the world. Currently, in addition to its core IT products business, Acer also has a new business entity that focuses on the integration of cloud services and platforms, and the development of smartphones and wearable devices with value-added IoT applications. Acer was founded by Stan Shih (施振榮), his wife Carolyn Yeh, and a group of five others as Multitech in 1976, headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. The company began with eleven employees and US$25,000 in capital. Initially, it was primarily a distributor of electronic parts and a consultant"
"company in 1965, Packard Bell Electronics in 1966 and General Precision Equipment Corporation in 1968. GPE included Librascope, The Kearfott Company, Inc, and Link Flight Simulation. In the 1968 also Singer bought out GPS Systems and added it to the Link Simulations Systems Division (LSSD). This unit produced nuclear power plant control center simulators in Silver Spring, MD and Columbia, MD, while flight simulators were produced in Binghamton, New York. In 1987, corporate raider Paul Bilzerian made a ""greenmail"" run at Singer, and ended up owning the company when no ""White Knight"" rescuer appeared. To recover his money, Bilzerian sold"
"Larry Augustin Larry Augustin (born October 10, 1962) is the Chairman of SugarCRM. He is a former venture capitalist and the founder of VA Software (now Geeknet). During the height of the dot-com bubble, Augustin was a billionaire on paper at the age of 38. Augustin is featured in the 2001 documentary film ""Revolution OS"". Augustin grew up on a family farm in New Hampshire. After receiving a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Augstin received a fellowship from Bell Labs to pursue a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He went to work"
"by a trade-in program of its own, that also allowed trading in hardware from Sun and other vendors in return for a discount on HP workstations. This article was partly based on material from the ""Free On-line Dictionary of Computing"" and is used with permission under the GFDL. Apollo Computer Apollo Computer Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s. Like computer companies at the"
"Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. At its height, the Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center. On April 20, 2009, it was announced that Oracle"
"for the last 25 years, and that's why I know a little bit about technology."" —Bordan Tkachuk Viglen Viglen Ltd provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers, workstations and data/voice communications equipment and services. The British company was formed in 1975 by Vigen Boyadjian and was acquired by Alan Sugar (later Lord Sugar)'s company Amstrad in 1994. During the 1980s, the company specialised in direct sales through multi page advertisements in leading computer magazines, catering particularly, but not exclusively, to owners of Acorn computers. In 1997, it was listed as a public limited company, and Amstrad plc shares"
"in 1986, the project was cancelled. Martin Brennan and John Mathieson, two Sinclair engineers, took the ""Loki"" technology with them and founded Flare Technology. There they worked on an abortive games console project on the Konix Multisystem, later working with Atari on the Panther and Jaguar systems. According to Jaguar developer Andrew Whittaker, two other Sinclair employees, Bruce Gordon and Alan Miles, who went on to form Miles Gordon Technology, also used some of the designs in the SAM Coupé. Loki (computer) Loki was the codename for a home computer under development at Sinclair Research during the mid-1980s. The name"
"and consumers. It also offers its business-to-business communications products, including Digium Cloud Services, through a worldwide network of resellers. In 1999, while a Computer Engineering student at Auburn University, Mark Spencer founded Linux Support Services (LSS). The high cost of buying a business phone system for LSS spurred him to use Linux and his programming skills to develop his own solution. He named it Asterisk, after the programming wildcard symbol and the ”star” phone key. It enabled phone calls over the Internet, providing an alternative to hardware-dependent PBX systems at a cost as much as 80% less. ""Forbes Magazine"" characterized"
"not need to abide by patent agreements with Intel and LG. Quanta Computer Quanta Computer Incorporated () () is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Its customers include Apple Inc., Dell, Hewlett-Packard Inc., Alienware, Amazon.com, Cisco, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, BlackBerry Ltd, Sharp Corporation, Siemens AG, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, Verizon Wireless, and Vizio. It was founded by Barry Lam in 1988. Lam continues to head the company. Quanta has extended its businesses into enterprise network systems, home entertainment, mobile communication, automotive electronics, and digital home markets. The company also designs, manufactures and markets"
"Betacom Founded in 1966, Betacom is an electronics company specialising in audio and visual products. In 1992 Sir Alan Sugar's Amstrad purchased a 29.9% stake in the company from Canon Street Investments PLC. A rights issue and subscription increased Amstrad's shareholding in Betacom to 71.3%. Betacom, a UK-based domestic telephone supplier provided Amstrad with a foothold in the developing telecommunications market . The following year, repayment and cancellation of share capital involving a scheme of arrangement, as a result of which Amstrad's shareholding in Betacom reduces to 66.2% In 1996, Amstrad granted Betacom a licence to use the Amstrad brand"
"ALi Corporation ALi Corporation (also known as Acer Laboratories Incorporated or Acer Labs Inc., and commonly known as ALi) is a major designer and manufacturer of embedded systems integrated circuits, and a former manufacturer of personal computer integrated circuits. It is based in Taiwan, and is a subsidiary of the Acer group. The company was founded in 1987, its president is Teddy Lu. Part of ALi including the personal computer integrated circuits business was spun off as ULi Electronics Inc. in June 2003. ULi was acquired by Nvidia in 2006 for $52 million. It was not implemented. Used with ATI"
"Allen-Babcock Allen-Babcock Computing was founded in Los Angeles in 1964 by James D Babcock and Michael Jane Allen Babcock to take advantage of the fast-growing market for computer time-sharing services. In 1966 the company developed ""RUSH"" (Remote Users of Shared Hardware), an interactive dialect of PL/I. Between 1965 and 1966 they assisted in the development of CPS (Conversational Programming System), a timesharing system that ran under OS/360, under contract to IBM. CPS was a subset of RUSH prepared by IBM with the permission of Allen-Babcock. The significant technological outcome was the first idea to alter the hardware of an IBM"
"Apollo Computer Apollo Computer Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s. Like computer companies at the time and unlike manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles, Apollo produced much of its own hardware and software. Apollo was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989 for US$476 million, and gradually closed down over the period 1990-1997. The brand (as ""HP Apollo"") was resurrected in 2014 as part of HP's"
"Applied Logic Corporation Applied Logic Corporation (AL/COM) was a time-sharing company in the 1960s and 70s. Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, AL/COM started in 1962 working on ""mathematical techniques and their applications to problem-solving."" Seeing the need for in-house time sharing the company bought a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-6 and developed its time sharing service, which came on-line in 1966. In 1968 the company registered ""AL/COM"" as a trademark for its service. The system involved both custom software and custom hardware. By 1969 Applied Logic had four DEC PDP-10 dual KL-10 systems with plans for a fifth, and had"
"NetSuite NetSuite was founded in 1998 by Evan Goldberg under the original name NetLedger, which offered web-hosted accounting software. Oracle licensed the software under the banner of The Oracle Small Business Suite for a short time before cancellation. NetSuite is widely seen as the first cloud computing software company, with the company’s 1999 founding pre-dating that of Salesforce.com by about a month. Goldberg was the chairman and chief technology officer up until the Oracle acquisition. In July 2002, Zach Nelson was appointed CEO. Prior to joining NetSuite, Nelson ran an early provider of business applications over the Internet called MyCIO.com,"
"The Sun Microsystems company was founded in 1982 by Andy Bechtolsheim with other fellow graduate students at Stanford University. Bechtolsheim originally designed the SUN computer as a personal CAD workstation for the Stanford University Network (hence the acronym ""SUN""). It was designed around the Motorola 68000 processor with the Unix operating system and virtual memory, and, like SGI, had an embedded frame buffer. Later developments included computer servers and workstations built on its own RISC-based processor architecture and a suite of software products such as the Solaris operating system, and the Java platform. By the '90s, Sun workstations were popular"
"Apache (web server), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database), PostGIS (geographic information systems) and Linux (operating system). Mark Taylor founded Sirius Corporation in 1998. Sirius have worked with household brands including Pepsico, BOC, Three, Sony Ericsson, Axa and Specsavers. In 2008, Sirius was among 12 software suppliers to have been awarded places on the £80m Software for Educational Institutions Framework (SEIF) agreement and in 2009 . In 2009, Sirius working in partnership with the North West Learning Grid and were awarded a Highly Commended for their work on the NDRB (National"
"competitors that offered fast large hard disks. Today, General Computer, currently located in Burlington, Massachusetts, sells laser printers. General Computer Corporation The General Computer Corporation (GCC) is a printer company formed in 1981 by Doug Macrae, John Tylko, and Kevin Curran. The company began as a video game company. They later changed to make computer peripherals. They started out making mod-kits for existing arcade games - for example ""Super Missile Attack"", which was sold as an enhancement board to Atari's ""Missile Command"". At first Atari sued, but ultimately dropped the suit and hired GCC to develop games for Atari (and"
"Encore Computer Encore Computer was an early pioneer in the parallel computing market, based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Although offering a number of system designs beginning in 1985, they were never as well known as other companies in this field such as Pyramid Technology, Alliant, and the most similar systems Sequent and FLEX. Encore was founded in 1983 by: Kenneth Fisher, former CEO of Prime Computer; Gordon Bell, an engineering vice president from Digital Equipment Corporation responsible for the development of the VAX; and, Henry Burkhardt III, co-founder of Data General and Kendall Square Research. Their goal was to build massively"
"VIC-20 and 64; Sinclair ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum; NEC PC-8000, PC-6001, PC-88 and PC-98; Sharp X1 and X68000; and Atari 8-bit family, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, and MSX series. These rivals helped to catalyze both the home computer and game markets, by raising awareness of computing and gaming through their competing advertising campaigns. The Sinclair, Acorn and Amstrad offerings were generally only known in Europe and Africa, the NEC and Sharp offerings were generally only known in Asia, and the MSX had a base in South America, Europe, Middle East and Asia, while the US-based Apple, Commodore"
"a feat unmatched by any private software publisher in the world. Microsoft (a public company) is the only other software publisher in the world to reach this milestone. Cincom Systems Cincom Systems, Inc., is a privately held, multinational, computer technology corporation founded in 1968 by Tom Nies, Tom Richley, and Claude Bogardus. The company's best known product today is named Total (trademark TOTAL). Decades after Cincom's founder left IBM, the latter posted ""Cincom was the original database company."" Cincom was introduced at a time when hardware was far more important than software, and the computer industry did not have any"
"prominence. A last ditch effort to create a fully IBM compatible Osborne produced three prototypes, but too late to save the company from bankruptcy. Commercial rights for the Osborne brand name were later acquired by the Finnish clone PC maker Mikrolog Ltd which to this day markets its server and desktop PCs domestically under the previously world famous name. Osborne Computer Corporation The Osborne Computer Corporation (OCC) was a pioneering maker of portable computers. It was located in the Silicon Valley of the southern San Francisco Bay Area in California. Adam Osborne the founder of the company, developed, with design"