Digital Equipment Corp is treating the retirement of Ken Olsen a bit like a death in the family and says it is postponing for a few weeks the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new semiconductor facility at its complex in Hudson, Massachusetts, which was to be held next week – We are rescheduling the groundbreaking given everything else that’s happening now at DEC, a spokeswoman told Reuter – We thought people might come and not be able to concentrate on the groundbreaking – perhaps they thought it would seem too much like an interment; Ken Olsen was have spoken at the ceremony as was Massachusetts Governor William Weld.
