Bourne, Mass., company sets its sights on a new market.

Publication: Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, Massachusetts) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Cape Cod Times

Byline: David Schoetz

Feb. 28--BOURNE -- Silicon Valley, Cape Cod is not.

But in a largely maritime, service-oriented and construction-based economy, Onset Computer Corp., a mom-and-pop tech company launched in a Falmouth barn in 1986, has swollen to 120 employees.

And with the arrival of a new product designed to track a building's overall power consumption, the homegrown business hopes to spin into whole new market.

"It was a stunner to see electricity bills," Onset president Mark McSherry said during a recent interview at the company's MacArthur Boulevard headquarters in Bourne.

"And you can't manage something...

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