Frederik Bruggink

Echelon Corp. engages in the development and distribution of open-standard control networking platforms for industrial internet of things applications. It offered chips, control point devices, network interfaces, software, modules, routers, controllers and gateways, motion sensors, and starter and evaluation kits. The company was founded by Armas Clifford Markkula, Jr. in February 1988 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Stratus Computer, Inc. designed and serviced computer systems. It was a producer of fault tolerant mainframe computers. Its traditional markets were financial services companies like banks and security exchanges. The firm was located in Maynard, MA.