Iomega has been bought up (almost)

External storage has always had a love affair with Macs. One remembers (at least us old guys) the Syquest, an external disk hat was a 'must have' for the professionals.
This company then disappeared, killed off by Iomega and its Zip drive (which had already gained the war against Nomai). Quickly Zip became a standard and was impossible to bypass, so much so that Apple had at one time suggested that they became an in-house of the Powermac G4. But Iomega became a victim of a technology which it under-estimated, the CD engraver.
Quickly, Zip and Jazz have been swept away by the engravers, since they allow storage of data at a much lower cost.
These various solutions again run up against the external Firewire disks. However, Iomega has survived due to solutions based on NAS.
It is now been learned that the company will be purchased by EMC. After many hot discussions on the price an area of agreement has been found.
EMC, is the world's number 1 of storage. However the Iomega mark will still exist since it still has a certain aura.