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NOVELL HIRES A GEEK GODZILLA...
...sales: $1.3 billion) owned the market for local- area-network software in the early 1990s, but has been losing share to Microsoft's Windows NT. Though Novell has tried to refocus, its stock recently traded at a near all-time low. Investors are doubting its chances of beating Big Geek (as Microsoft has become known...
...Novell has a big geek of its own. Sun Microsystems' house genius, Eric Schmidt, 41, is going to head up the struggling company. Schmidt is credited with helping build Sun (1996 sales: $7 billion) into a hardware behemoth. Soft-spoken and given to windy though usually hysterical jokes, he has a long trail of success: millions in the bank, oodles of patents, the respect of the industry. Why jump to Novell? Friends say there's only one other thing he wants: Bill Gates' scalp...
...person, Kasparov is something of a surprise. Handsome and burly, he has a temper and psychology more befitting a garrulous European uncle than a genius geek who spends his life hunched over a chessboard. During appetizers he enthralls the table with discourses on a diverse array of topics, including hot chocolate (the world's best is found at Cafe Angelica on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris), Kremlin politics ("Russia has no choice other than Lebed!") and his infant son Vadim--"I want to stay on top long enough for him to recognize his father as a champion...
...really who in Bronson's book? At the heart of the new machine is a revolutionary computer language called the "hypnotizer," the brainchild of an archetypal "pear-shaped" geek named Tiny Curtis Reese. He bears an uncanny resemblance to James Gosling, the pear-shaped Sun Microsystems programmer who created Java, the computer lingua franca of the Internet...