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...when Microsoft's appeal is scheduled to be heard by a three-judge panel, viewed by antitrust sources as libertarian-leaning and thus possibly pro-Microsoft. By then programmers will be working with early versions of Windows98, which integrates Explorer even more fully--thus in theory solidifying Microsoft's hammerlock...
...corporate manifestation of that warrior spirit is Oracle, the software-and-consulting giant Ellison has built over the past 20 years. Oracle enjoys a virtual hammerlock in the immensely profitable business of organizing and storing information in electronic databases. In the past fiscal year the firm squeezed more than $600 million in profits from revenues of $4.2 billion by helping firms like Pacific Bell and American Airlines track billing records and airline reservations. The company's market value is $28 billion--more than that of Time Warner or H.J. Heinz--and it has enjoyed better than a 30% annual growth...
...Navigator had the potential to be the next Windows: a method for launching programs and calling up information not only from the Internet but also from corporate networks and even from the user's own PC. In short, it could supplant the operating system and finally break Microsoft's hammerlock on the PC industry. Barksdale knew Microsoft wouldn't--couldn't--ignore the challenge. "It was such an obvious opportunity," he says. "They weren't going to miss it. We had always expected Microsoft to get hard core about the Internet...
...that he had called the sunrise gathering just before departing for the NATO summit in Rome suggested, like his abrupt cancellation of the Asian tour, that the President was starting to worry about his political future. For the first time since his Desert Storm triumph last February, Bush's hammerlock on a second term seemed to be slipping...
BUSINESS: King Arnold has a hammerlock on box offices around the world...