Word: giant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That would give Gerstner an ideal weapon for challenging industry giant Microsoft, which dominates most other parts of the desktop software business. Not only would IBM reap increasing revenues from sales of Notes, but other software companies could use it as a "platform" on which to build their own programs and thereby turn it into a global standard. "In this industry he who is first garners an enormous amount of benefit," Gerstner says. But Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who plans to roll out a groupware program called Exchange later this year, dismissed the IBM-Lotus alliance. "I just...
...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 can run their daily lives the way they've always done...
There is also the endless fascination with Jackson -- a man turned inside out, his inner child on the outside, his adult self buried deep within. While recording part of the CD in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jackson sneaked out for visits, in disguise, to the giant Mall of America. "He likes to see people," says producer Jam. "He would go to the mall at the busiest time, and I would ask him why, and he said, 'I want to go when it's jumping...
Michael Ovitz isn't going anywhere. Negotiations for the Creative Artists Agency chairman to head MCA collapsed as Seagram completed its $5.7 billion purchase of 80% of the entertainment giant. Disputes between Ovitz and Seagram ceo Edgar Bronfman Jr. over executive autonomy and a compensation package worth more than $200 million are speculated to have caused the impasse...
Salt Lake City willhost the 2002 Winter Olympics. While boosters watched on a giant screen back home, delegates from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...