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The acquisition of BusLogic was initially a success for Mylex, the company's revenue growing from about $ 100 million in mid-1995 to $ 173 million in mid-1996. However, Mylex's stock dropped sharply in July 1996, after several of their largest customers either announced their own in-house
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of Mylex valuated at roughly $ 55 million. The acquisition was finalized in late
January 1996, BusLogic's shareholders netting additional stock options post-acquisition, increasing the terms of the sale to over $ 67.9 million. Mylex retained BusLogic's Santa Clara plant as a manufacturing
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In June 1994, BusLogic debuted their so-dubbed MultiMaster technology with a trio of bus-mastering Fast SCSI host adapters for ISA, VLB, and EISA. MultiMaster was BusLogic's name for their latest ASIC, which incorporated core logic common to all of the major desktop computer buses. This integration
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Chantal debuted in February 1993. They were a trio of product bundles comprising bus-mastering Fast SCSI host adapters supporting either the ISA, Micro Channel, or EISA buses, each bundled with Chantal's Paragon RAID configuration software.
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management software—for an undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition, BusTek changed their name to BusLogic, reflecting a broader focus on both software and hardware. The eight remaining employees of
Chantal were integrated into BusLogic; the former company had filed for
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Chantal under their wing, the company employed 95 workers and generated $ 15 million in sales for the year, becoming a market leader in the SCSI adapter segment. Their largest competitors at this point were
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RAID controllers or began making contracts with
Adaptec, their largest rival. Following a long sales slump, in July 1997, Mylex announced layoffs within the company and disclosed the imminent shuttering of the old BusLogic plant.
277:. A SCSI host adapter card with bus mastering was widely anticipated in the burgeoning EISA market, as it was one of the last steps in making EISA systems competitive in terms of both performance and flexibility against
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Chantal software-based RAID products were widely used in hospitals, universities, and blue- and white-collar industries during the mid-1990s, handling loads of up to around 800 simultaneous users.
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Supporting Windows NT & Windows 2000 Workstation and Server
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654:"NCR Bus-Master Chip Supports MCA, EISA, AT, NuBus Protocols"
677:"Speedy BusTek BT-742A Links EISA PCs to SCSI Peripherals"
889:(32). IDG Publications: 101–102 – via Google Books.
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In November 1993, the company announced their first SCSI
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1343:(13). IDG Publications: 28–35 – via Google Books.
752:. Bell Globemedia Publishing: A1 – via ProQuest.
1264:"Startup contributes to wave of thin LAN server gear"
1001:"BusLogic speeds data transfer with IDE cache boards"
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1251:(9). IDG Publications: 109 – via Google Books.
1060:(26). IDG Publications: 46 – via Google Books.
912:(23). Endeavor Business Media: 152 – via Gale.
866:(6). Reed Business Information: 28 – via Gale.
810:"BusTek to Acquire Disk-Array Maker Chantal Systems"
628:"NCR Host Interface Circuit Supports Multiple Buses"
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1177:"Fiber Channel vendors gear up for Comdex assault"
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1050:"BusLogic unveils line of SCSI host adapter cards"
946:Corporate Technology Information Services (1994).
506:Juliussen, Karen Petska; Egil Juliussen (1993).
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833:"BusLogic Rolls Out First Chantal RAID Bundles"
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1024:"BusLogic Controller Kit Soups Up Hard Drives"
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538:"Focus on Personalities: Wo Overstreet"
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985:(41). Ziff-Davis: 98 – via Gale.
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687:(38). Ziff-Davis: 22 – via Gale.
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900:Nass, Richard (November 11, 1993).
808:Sullivan, Kristina (July 6, 1992).
787:"BusTek Now BusLogic, Buys Chantal"
652:Darrow, Barbara (January 1, 1990).
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1241:"Mylex looks for another rebound"
1215:"Mylex Bids $ 67.9M for BusLogic"
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1154:. Peterson's Guides. p. 31.
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975:"Get set for the PCI invasion"
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1196:"Mylex to Buy Hardware Maker"
925:"Server Vendors Ride PCI Bus"
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856:"BusLogic Bundles Disk Array"
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