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Having sold or put up for sale such subsidiaries as Electronic Data Systems, Hughes Aerospace and a part of its Delphi parts division, GM is betting its future solely on its ability to sell automobiles at reasonable profit, something it has not done in North America since Cadillacs had fins. Says Rick Wagoner, president of GM's North American operations: "It's a watershed year for us to show that we can do great products. It's the freshman class of a new generation...
...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...
...strong customer base among businesses, for instance, News Corp. has little in the way of business information services to offer them. For Murdoch, the most important advantage of MCI's already established presence on the Internet is the second chance it offers to his flagging on-line service, Delphi. It ranks a distant fourth behind America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy. That could change fast if MCI promoted Delphi to its 16 million residential customers...
...America Online is going like lightning," Murdoch pointedly told Time in March, "but they are spending a lot of money to enlist customers." Murdoch also said then that next season he plans to introduce a new and more sophisticated version of Delphi, which he hopes will feature new access software that will make it easier for subscribers to point and click their way onto the Internet. That could put him head-to-head with software's maximum leader, Bill Gates, whose Windows 95, set to debut in August, also promises to speed users onto...
...Macs. I expressed opinions about everything. I even started an altercation that dragged half of West Coast cyberspace into an electronic brawl and got myself banished from the WELL. (They let me back two months later.) I moved on to the big commercial services: CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, Delphi and America Online, as well as half a dozen Internet systems. I had more user IDs (electronic addresses) than I sometimes had dollars in my bank account...