1989 was a year of tumultuous events and the beginning of the greatest entrepreneurial story of our time. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the dawn of the dot.com economy in 1995, two startup companies from Orange County, California made the world safer and advanced the business culture. Triconex and Wonderware operated locally but defined themselves globally. They defined an era of entrepreneurship in the age of globalization. Risk taking men and women became part of a greater good. Their passion and success reached beyond their grasp. The wall of Industrial automation had little time for an avant-garde movement launched from Bauhaus laboratories in Southern California.
But Bill Barkovitz of Triconex sold the world on a better safety system and Wonderware's Dennis Morin changed the business culture. Triconex held its IPO in March, 1992 and Wonderware had its spectacular debut on the Pacific Stock Exchange in July, 1993.
