Lernout & Hauspie File For Bankruptcy

from the not-a-good-sign dept

L&H has been the big name in speech recognition for many years. They'd been having troubles recently, but filing for Chapter 11 protection is a huge surprise. What I want to know is why L&H went out and bought two other big name speech recognition companies just a few months ago? They had to know that things weren't that great on the homefront.

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    The death touch of Microsoft....

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    alternatives, Nov 30th, 2000 @ 8:07am

    Once again, being partnered/taking money is a historic kiss of death. (L&H sold part of the firm off to M$...20% as I remember)

    Examples include:
    Digital
    Sybase

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