Word: ibm
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...Companies who want to work with us are interested in a lot more than us promoting the site," says Case. "They want us to help build the service." It's another smart plan, but executing this one will mean battling not upstarts like Prodigy and CompuServe but behemoths like IBM and Microsoft...
...other words, Java could cause Microsoft to end up looking a lot like IBM in the '80s--beleaguered by years of antitrust action but usurped only when a new revolution in computing took hold. The rise of the personal computer cost Big Blue its overwhelming dominance. Will Java do the same to Big Bill? The jury's still out on that one, although the release of Java 1.2 this week might help silence some critics of Java software. "We've never had this level of confidence in code," says Sick. "It's not where it needs...
...beast refused to die. "If I'm counting it right, [that's] the sixth time during the trial that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead," said chief Justice Department attorney David Boies, veteran of that other antitrust suit that wouldn't lie down -- the one against IBM. "The government's case is very much alive...
Founded in 1989, Trilogy develops software that helps giants like Boeing, Xerox and IBM streamline their operations. In two years, its revenue has grown from $70 million to $150 million. Meanwhile, its workforce has tripled. The amazing growth has helped catapult Trilogy from recruiting leper to leader...
...those who haven't read Raymond's excellent New Hacker's Dictionary, is geek for "fear, uncertainty and doubt"--a trick invented by IBM and perfected by Microsoft for scaring people away from a competitor's product...