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...customers that deal in large orders of anywhere from 100,000 to 1 million shares, have ultrapowerful computer complexes of their own. At the lower Manhattan trading floor of giant Merrill Lynch, which handled $184 billion worth of securities last year, batteries of IBM computers and a pair of Amdahl supercomputers have been installed to ensure that stock trades take no more than 15 to 20 seconds...
...with IBM in its backyard of computers, the telephone company is expected by industry analysts to go shopping for a major acquisition of its own. Among the most frequently discussed possible targets are several prominent data-processing firms. They include Digital Equipment, the second-largest maker of computers, and Amdahl, a manufacturer of mainframe machines...
Perhaps the most spectacular example of the peril of venturing onto technology's edge is Trilogy Ltd. Founded in 1980 by Gene Amdahl, a former IBM engineer, it was to have been a bravura business encore by the man who created Amdahl Corp., a successful maker of big mainframe computers. Amdahl audaciously planned to build a new supercomputer based on a revolutionary semiconductor chip that would be far faster than conventional ones. But, concedes Trilogy President Frederick White, "it was just too much to bite off." The company abandoned plans for both its superchip and its supercomputer earlier this...
...most talked-about new schemes for persuading a prized employee to stay with a company is to lavish on the person something called junior stock. Conceived in 1979 by Genentech, the bioengineering firm, junior stock has been widely used by such firms as Tele-Video Systems and Amdahl, two computer companies, and Cetus, another bioengineering concern. The plan has been particularly popular in California's Silicon Valley, where firms need all the incentives they can find to keep the engineers and scientists from job hopping. Some 200 high-tech firms have either issued junior shares or considered doing...
...staff laboratories and executive suites throughout the computer industry. "Almost everybody in the business seems to be a former IBMer," observes William Easterbrook, an ex-IBM manager in Copenhagen who now watches the computer industry for Kidder, Peabody, a Wall Street securities firm. Illustrious former employees include Gene Amdahl, founder of Amdahl Corp. (1982 sales: $462 million), which makes large computers; Joe M. Henson, president of Prime Computer (1982 sales: $436 million), a major producer of minicomputers; and David Martin, president of National Advanced Systems, the computer unit of National Semiconductor. Former employees usually speak highly of Big Blue. Says...