OnStream

{{Short description|Dutch magnetic tape storage company}}

{{Infobox company

| name=OnStream Holdings, Inc.

| logo=OnStream logo.svg

| type=Private

| founder=William B. Beierwaltes

| founded={{start date and age|1998}} in the Netherlands

| defunct={{start date and age|2003}}

| fate=Bankruptcy

| website={{web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990208005653/http://www.onstream.com/|title=onstream.com}}

}}

OnStream Holdings, Inc., was a Dutch computer hardware company that manufactured magnetic tape data storage products. The company was a spin-off of Philips established in 1998 and went bankrupt in both 2001 and 2003.{{cite web | title=OnStream bankrupt again, leaving MEMS projects homeless | website=Small Times | date=2003-05-23 | url=http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARCHI&C=Manuf&ARTICLE_ID=268733&p=109 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927010541/http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARCHI&C=Manuf&ARTICLE_ID=268733&p=109 | archive-date=2007-09-27 | url-status=dead | access-date=2019-10-02}}

As a result of its first bankruptcy in 2001, the company was split into two parts, OnStream Data and OnStream MST. The "Data" division manufactured magnetic tape products{{cite book|last=Mueller|first=Scott|title=Upgrading and Repairing PCs|url=https://archive.org/details/upgradingrepair100muel|url-access=registration|year=2003|publisher=Que Publishing|isbn=978-0-7897-2974-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/upgradingrepair100muel/page/n710 685]}} and the "MST" division produced the thin film tape heads.{{cite book | chapter=Thin film metal surface micromachining: A new enabling foundry technology | first1=Henne | last1=Van Heeren | title=Micromachining and Microfabrication Process Technology VIII | last2=Andringa | first2=Toon | last3=Attenborough | first3=K. | last4=Eisenberg | first4=Martin | last5=Meeuws | first5=P. | editor3-first=Jean Michel | editor3-last=Karam | editor2-first=Mary Ann | editor2-last=Perez-Maher | editor1-first=John A | editor1-last=Yasaitis | year=2003 | volume=4979 | pages=178 | doi=10.1117/12.478289}} MST also produced microsieves and microelectromechanical systems products. After the second OnStream bankruptcy in 2003, the MST division was reborn as fluXXion, a maker of high-tech filtering products.{{cite web | title=Fluxxion: 'Our value is basically our intellectual property' | website=Financial Times | date=2010-06-03 | url=https://www.ft.com/content/641dffcc-6ddb-11df-b5c9-00144feabdc0 | access-date=2019-10-02}} fluXXion had some success in filtering beer and other food products but went bankrupt in 2011.{{cite web | title=Suspension of payment Fluxxion B.V. in Eindhoven (S.01/11/16) | website=FaillissementsDossier.nl | url=https://www.faillissementsdossier.nl/en/suspensionofpayment/129952/fluxxion-b-v.aspx | access-date=2019-10-02}}

Prior to the first bankruptcy, the CEO was William B. Beierwaltes, a tape systems pioneer and founder of Colorado Memory Systems.{{cite web | title=OnStream, Inc. Positioned to Capitalize on Growing Demand for Affordable, High-Capacity Removable Storage | website=prnewswire.com | date=1998-11-05 | url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/onstream-inc-positioned-to-capitalize-on-growing-demand-for-affordable-high-capacity-removable-storage-77283172.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120124421/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/onstream-inc-positioned-to-capitalize-on-growing-demand-for-affordable-high-capacity-removable-storage-77283172.html | archive-date=2016-01-20 | url-status=dead | access-date=2019-10-02}}

The company's magnetic tape data storage technology was called Advanced Digital Recording (ADR). Tape drives based on this technology were relatively high in data capacity and low in price.