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...stunning victory gave executives at Sun's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., a chance to be magnanimous. "We'd be more than happy to help Microsoft become compatible," offered Sun vice president Alan Baratz. While the ruling was only a preliminary injunction (a trial date hasn't even been set yet), you can forgive Sun for acting like giant killers. Whyte is a tech-savvy judge with a reputation for weighty, watertight decisions. Sun's case, he wrote, is likely to succeed on merit...
...interesting, from a business perspective, is the so-called intranet--the collection of networks that connect computers withincorporations--that both Sun and Microsoft have targeted as a rich area for growth. To help head off its chief competitor, Sun last week launched a new JavaSoft division, run by Alan Baratz, a former IBM executive and president of Rupert Murdoch's Delphi Internet Services Corp., to boost Java in both the fast-growing Internet and the far more profitable intranet...
...Harold Baratz, like many offspring of immigrants from Eastern or Southern Europe, wanted desperately to be seen as American. For years he complained that his name was a handicap, often misspelled or mispronounced, a dead giveaway. His brother Samuel had rechristened himself Bill Barzell. That was too exotic for Dad, who did little but grumble about our foreign-sounding name until I started to get bylines on my high school paper. That did it. Not long after my bar mitzvah, he went to court and got a writ requiring the world to call us Barrett. In journalism, he assured...
...jobs, Wall Street, insurance and banking were also closed to those of Mediterranean or Slavic descent. A handful of legal and financial establishments were the preserves of high-caste German Jews, seldom hospitable to Polish and Russian Jews. The Postal Service was more ) egalitarian. The merit system allowed a Baratz to rise in rank, slowly. But my father felt that he lived in confinement -- a condition from which he would abet his only son's escape by providing cover...
Many names considered Jewish are in fact German, Polish or Russian in derivation. Dad didn't know in 1950 that he was trading in a contrivance that had been in the family for only 140 years or so. Later research by cousin Lewis Baratz (a roots maven) discovered that circa 1800 our antecedents in the Jewish pale went by Ben Reb Tzadik (Son of the Master Scholar). Apparently there was an earlier pedagogue in our crowd. For tax purposes or other bureaucratic reasons, the authorities in a few countries around 1810 ordered Jews to give up generic Hebrew titles. Like...