What happened to HCC / Rebel.com ?
Hardware Computing Canada (HCC) bought the NetWinder line from Corel in January 1999, and a few months later they renamed the combined venture to Rebel.com. The media made a big fuss over the rebel.com domain name having cost $5,000,000, however the reality was that only a few thousand were spent, with the balance to be paid when Rebel hit a certain amount of revenue (which it never did). On July 13, 2001 Rebel filed for bankruptcy. Things had been pretty rough for the last six months, and the failure to form a strategic partnership with Fuji/Xerox eventually killed the company. During the Rebel.com time, OfficeServer product was developed and three major versions of it were completed. OfficeServer combined the features of WebServer and GroupServer. Also, Rebel designed the NetWinder 3100, a new hardware model based on the Transmeta Crusoe 5400 processor. Like its predecessors, the 3100 exists in both a plastic desktop model (grey and blue colours), and a metal rack-mount version with
