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...source familiar with the negotiations said this week that union leaders and the University had agreed to discuss "separately the contract and [a proposed] buyout [for long-time guards...
...guard said those security personnel who are agitating for a buyout and who complain about McCombe "have an ax to grind" with the union...
...feast has wrought. And AOL's new bottom line is a company swollen with millions of new customers, rivers of new revenue and essentially unlimited potential but also a tricky new business model that may prove difficult to take from the white board to the real world. The Netscape buyout has redrawn the online map, but a certain software concern based in Redmond, Wash., still looms menacingly on the horizon. The epic confrontation between Netscape and Microsoft is over, but the epic confrontation between Sun and Microsoft proceeds apace, and the epic confrontation between AOL and Microsoft has barely begun...
...system (soon to be renamed Windows 2000), the centerpiece of both the next generation of industry-standard PCs and Microsoft's effort to do to Java and Sun's Solaris operating system what it did to Navigator with Explorer. In fact, McNealy's primary motive for supporting the Netscape buyout may be the prospect of saving the Netscape browser. One of Microsoft's big advantages is its ability to integrate its Windows and browser software, offering customers a soup-to-nuts package deal. With AOL on his side, McNealy can offer a similar deal--as long as Case decides that...
...Gates' famously evasive testimony and the parade of Microsoft's victims have hurt the company, at least in the eyes of the press. But the case's central tenet--that Microsoft illegally leveraged its operating-systems monopoly--still stands, whatever AOL does with Netscape. Even before the $4.2 billion buyout was announced, government economist Frederick Warren-Boulton was framing it as more evidence of Microsoft's strong-arming. "Netscape has been forced to the wall," he said. "That's an unfortunate outcome of what Microsoft has been doing." Touche...