Five … Ten … Fifteen … MEGWARE

Chemnitz, 27 January 2010 – MEGWARE is going to celebrate its 20th anniversary on February 1st 2010

February 1st 1990 was the day everything began. MEGware Computerservice started running its business. We had to pay 15 mark to get our trading licence, opened our office in the residential house and went on with producing lots of personal computers in the cellar. Our company car, a white-coloured Trabant, was waiting outside. Our customers were private persons and resellers. The agricultural production cooperative “Sonnenschein” was the first costumer of MEGware. They bought 4 computers for 100,000 GDR Mark, which was an unbelievable amount of money for that time. All the components we used for the production of the computers we bought in the western part of Germany and transported them to the east.

In the beginning of 1991 MEGware opened its first branch in Chemnitz on the Muehlenstrasse. And this was followed by lots of other branch openings. In the end there have been 35 shops with an amount of 200 employees in the year 1998. People queued in front of our shops and cleared up our storage. We sold lots of computers, in some months about 5000 in total.

In 1999 there was a change in the market. Saturation of the market, less updates in a longer period of time and more competitors have been the reasons for this. MEGWARE needed a new idea, a new business area. In the year 2000 MEGWARE built and delivered the Chemnitz Linux Cluster, short CLiC, to the Chemnitz University of Technology. The team of MEGWARE had no experience in the field of Compute Cluster nevertheless the project was a big success. This supercomputer reached number 126 in the TOP500 table, a table that shows the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems in the world. Furthermore the CLiC was the world’s fastest supercomputer produced out of conventional personal computer components.

And nowadays? There are Linux cluster of MEGWARE in institutions, universities and in companies between Valencia and Bern as well as in Nicosia, Rome, Zurich and Abu Dhabi and of course in Germany. In Saxony MEGWARE delivers IT system solutions.

Today MEGWARE is a successful company in the region of Chemnitz. We would like to celebrate this with our long-time-customers and business partners, with our employees and all the persons, who supported us in all the years. Regarding to our anniversary celebration we are going to look back on the past but also in the future. We are expecting amongst others Karl Noltze, president of the state directorate Chemnitz, Barbara Ludwig, mayor of Chemnitz, Michael Lohse, president of Chamber of Industry and Commerce in southwest Saxony, Hans-Joachim Wunderlich, managing director of Chamber of Industry and Commerce in southwest Saxony as well as Dr. Gunnar Grosse, founder and chairperson of the KOMSA AG. (jm)

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