Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JAVA Neither island nor coffee, this miniaturized programming language from Sun Microsystems can add sparkle and interactivity to the most sluggish home page on the World Wide Web, the fastest growing part of the Internet. Rivals--IBM, Microsoft and even Netscape--have all agreed to adopt it as a kind of Esperanto...
...percent decline in the industrial average. But today's trading wiped out most of the gains made in December and created new worries that for the Dow, up 32 percent on the year, the 1995 rally might be faltering. Hit especially hard today were tech stocks, such as Netscape, IBM and Apple, which continued to weaken after leading the Dow's charge past 4,000 and then 5,000 this year...
Several companies have adopted this philosophy, including Oracle and IBM, and are now developing so-called "dumb PC's." Although Ballmer questioned this philosophy at the meeting, he said that Microsoft would develop software for whatever machine people wanted...
What can a $500 dumb computer do? Not much. A decent 17-inch color monitor costs about $700. Most people want to see their information in color on a nice, big screen; how will IBM and Oracle overcome this difficulty...
...Oracle, IBM and other companies know something we don't? I doubt it. These companies have made it their goal to break the so-called "Wintel" dominance over the computer market (the large number of users using Microsoft products on Intel-based machines). While this announcement certainly raises the question over the future effectiveness of the personal computer model, realistically, Ellison and his peers are spewing hype rather than predicting the future...