Data Technology Corp, Santa Clara, California has completed acquisition of Qume Corp from Alcatel NV for about $20m cash and will change its own name to Qume in the near future. Its cash buys all Qume operations in the US, UK, Taiwan, France and West Germany. The decision to rename his new company Qume turns the wheel full circle for Data Tech chief David Lee: he founded Qume in 1973. Data Tech is keen to add its own CrystalPrint family to the Qume line and turn the combination into a major printer company. The new Qume will be a group with over $150m annual sales, and 800 staff – after shedding some 15% of the combined workforce – and three lines of business: peripherals, disk controllers and distribution. Peripherals comprise the two firms’ printers plus Data Tech’s Hyperflex disk drives. Data Tech will go on with the disk controller boards and chip sets it was founded to make. Lee is going back home in another sense: headquarters will move to the Qume base in Milpitas.