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Tadpole SPARCle
Tadpole Computer was a manufacturer of rugged, military specification, Unix, UNIX workstations, thin client laptops and lightweight servers. History Tadpole was founded in 1994 and originally based in Cambridge, England, then for a time in Cupertino, California. In 1998, Tadpole acquired RDI Computer Corporation of Carlsbad, California, who produced the competing RDI PowerLite, Britelite and Powerlite portable SPARC-based systems, for $6 million. Tadpole was later acquired by defense contractor General Dynamics, in April 2005. Production continued until March 2013 but since then, they no longer sell any systems; and support for their products is provided by Flextronics. An anonymous US intelligence officer had stated to Reuters in 2013 that a decade earlier the US secretly created a company Reseller, reselling laptops from Tadpole Computer to Asian governments. The reseller added secret software that allowed intelligence analysts to access the machines remotely. Products Tadp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Dynamics
General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2020, it was the fifth largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales and fifth largest in the United States by total sales. The company is a ''Fortune'' 100 company and was ranked in 2022. Formed in 1952 with the merger of submarine manufacturer Electric Boat and aircraft manufacturer Canadair, the corporation today consists of ten subsidiary companies with operations in 45 countries. The company's products include Gulfstream business jets, and nuclear-powered submarines, guided-missile destroyers, M1 Abrams tanks, and Stryker armored fighting vehicles. In 2024, General Dynamics had worldwide sales of $47.7 billion and a workforce of approximately 117,000 full-time employees. The current chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) is Phebe Novakovic. History Electric Boat General Dynamics traces its ancestry to John Philip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
