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Among the big challenges for IBM will be to maintain the allegiance of crucial talent like Ray Ozzie, the creator of Notes, who spent 10 years developing the software. "The downside of IBM is that it takes 42 people to make a decision," says Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus, who now is an adjunct professor at M.I.T. "If that happens, Ray will throw up his hands." Gerstner tries to sound reassuring. "We certainly don't want to suck Lotus into the giant company that IBM is and destroy what makes it so successful and unique," he says. "They...
...Monday, Comedy Central will begin broadcasting the final six of the show's 18 episodes for the first time in the U.S., which is likely to fan the AbFab fanaticism that's taking hold. Last month Pocket Books issued a compilation of AbFab teleplays. Jennifer Saunders, the show's creator, writer and co-star (as Edina), is writing a movie version of the comedy. In the meantime, Roseanne, who bought the American rights to the show because she thinks "every line of it is brilliant," has spent the past few weeks trying to persuade ABC executives that network audiences will...
Cartoonist Lynn Johnston, creator of the strip, notes that when Farley died she portrayed the Patterson family as being devastated, even though none of them cried. Johnston assumed that readers, when shown the different family members in various forms of grief, would feel their sadness. "There is more to the family's grief than I have space to show," she explains. She has received more than 500 letters about Farley's death...
...chief executive Jim Manzi. "Everybody figured that he had to go -- that you cannot have a strong personality representing the old company," Allis says. But he says IBM chief Louis Gerstner recognized the move was necessary to maintain the allegiance of key brains at Lotus -- espcially Ray Ozzie, the creator of the lucrative Lotus Notes program that mayhelp IBM challenge software behemoth Microsoft...
Clarifications on the issues of computer privacy, asserting that no student has the right to examine information its creator regards as personal, even if it is accessible, are among the proposed changes in next year's Handbook for Students...