Editing Data General (section)

===EMC takeover===
CLARiiON was the only product line that saw continued success through the later 1990s after finding a large niche for Unix storage systems,<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=ComputerWorld  |date=August 10, 1999 
|title=EMC to buy Data General for $US1.1B 
|url=https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/104292/emc_buy_data_general_us1_1b
|quote=Storage systems, software and services vendor EMC is to buy Data General for ... of Data General whose flagship Clariion line targets midrange storage systems}}</ref> and its sales were still strong enough to make DG a takeover target. [[EMC Corporation|EMC]], the [[800-pound gorilla]] in the storage market, announced in August 1999 that they would buy Data General and its assets for $1.1 billion or $19.58 a share.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.emc.com/about/news/press/us/1999/19990809-71.htm|title=EMC to Acquire Data General|date=August 9, 1999}}</ref> The acquisition was completed on October 12, 1999.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.emc.com/about/news/press/us/1999/19991012-55.htm|title=EMC Announces Completion of Data General Acquisition|date=October 12, 1999}}</ref>

Although details of the acquisition specified that EMC had to take the entire company, and not just the storage line, EMC quickly ended all development and production of DG computer hardware and parts, effectively ending Data General's presence in the segment. The maintenance business was sold to a third party, who also acquired all of DG's remaining hardware components for spare parts sales to old DG customers. The CLARiiON line continued to be a major player in the market and was marketed under that name until January 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.networkcomputing.com/storage/emc-discontinues-clariion-celerra-storage-lines/1730497075 |title=EMC Discontinues Clariion, Celerra Storage Lines |first=Deni |last=Connor |website=Network Computing |date=23 August 2011 |access-date=23 January 2012}}</ref> CLARiiON was also widely sold by Dell through a worldwide OEM deal with EMC. The Clariion and Celerra storage products evolved into EMC's unified storage platform, the VNX platform.

Data General would be only one of many New England based computer companies, including the original [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], that collapsed or were sold to larger companies after the 1980s. On the Internet, even the old Data General domain (dg.com), which contained a few EMC webpages that only mentioned the latter company in passing, was sold to the [[Dollar General]] discount department store chain in October 2009.