DEC's Systems Integration Plans Unfold At Decworld

- WatersTechnology Staff
- 26 Sep 1988

Best known for its international film festival, Cannes is a software supermarket for the entertainment industry. Digital Equipment Corp.'s DECWORLD event brought another kind of software to this opulent Mediterranean playground. From Sept. 12-23, over 200 contributing third parties showed their wares on DEC hardware at DEC's invitation, as 18,000 customers were wined, dined, and plied with DECspeak.

Hardware news was in short supply. The big news out of this year's propaganda-fest is that DEC

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