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They will replace a distinguished quintet of overseers which includes two-time Overseers President Theodore M. Hesburgh, who is president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame; Michael Crichton '64, author of the best-selling book Jurassic Park; and John A. Armstrong '56, a former vice president at IBM...
...negotiations," that Apple would soon be acquired by Sun Microsystems, which makes workstations and Internet servers. Apple, the upstart company that made computers "user friendly" to millions of ordinary people has had an unenviable year, culminating with a loss of $69 million during the critical Christmas fourth quarter, while IBM was showing a 41 percent profit for the same period, that caused its stock to drop 10 percent. "Apple Chief Executive Michael Spindler is going to look more and more like the little boy with the finger in the dike if he tries to stop a merger or takeover," says...
That battle came to a head the first week in December, when Sun and Microsoft staged competing press conferences. Sun went first, announcing a long list of companies that had agreed to endorse Java, including IBM, Apple, DEC, Adobe, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Toshiba. Everybody expected Microsoft to strike back, reaffirming its commitment to its own Java-like Visual Basic. But at the last minute, Gates changed his mind, announcing that he too would license Java, while also promising somewhat menacingly to "extend...
...business perspective, is the so-called intranet--the 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...
...test his theory, Ellison has commissioned Acorn, a British computer maker, to help design a "networked computer" to his specifications, with a keyboard, a processor, some random-access memory, a communications link and not much else. Meanwhile, nearly every other major computer maker, from Apple to IBM, claims to have something similar in the works. Sun has teamed up with Japan's Fujitsu on a machine they are calling (not surprisingly) the "Java terminal...