Editing Stac Electronics (section)

===1994–2002{{anchor|After 1994}}===
At some time prior to 1996, the company relocated its main office from Carlsbad to [[Carmel Valley, San Diego, California|Carmel Valley]], in [[San Diego, California|San Diego]], and maintained a programming group in [[Estonia]]. After settling the lawsuit with Microsoft, Stac attempted to expand its product portfolio in the utility software segment by adding additional storage and communication titles through internal development and acquisition.  The company scrambled to replace the revenues lost after the market for hard drive compression software collapsed with the inclusion of [[DoubleSpace]] in MS-DOS and the rapid decline in hard disk cost per megabyte.  Using the funds from its [[IPO]] (1992) and the settlement with Microsoft, Stac acquired a [[remote desktop software]] product called "[[ReachOut (software)|ReachOut]]".  It acquired a server image backup product, "Replica", and internally developed a network backup product for [[workstation]]s and [[laptop]]s, and marketed this product first as "Replica NDM" and later as "eSupport Essentials".  Much of the technology pioneered in Stac's network backup offering ultimately found its way into today's online backup solutions.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}}

Meanwhile, Stac's original chip business continued to grow.  In order to realize shareholder value, its chip subsidiary called [[Hifn]], was spun off in 1998 in a primary public offering.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Form 10: General Form for the Registration of Securities |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065246/0000936392-98-001607.txt |publisher=United States Securities and Exchange Commission |date=1998-12-10 |access-date=2016-09-02}}</ref>

Stac then renamed the remaining utility software company to "Previo", and repositioned itself as a [[help desk]] and support organization tool provider.  This effort was pursued while the [[dot-com bubble]] was bursting, and in 2002 management elected to take the unusual step of selling Stac's remaining technology assets (to [[Altiris]]) and returning its remaining cash to [[shareholders]] before dissolving.