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Apple lost $69 million in its latest quarter and has an uneven history of making money over its lifetime. But for Sun, a $5.9 billion maker of workstations and network computers, the acquisition would make considerable sense. It would nearly triple the size of the company and give Sun a major position in three key markets for computer systems: workstations, networking and personal computers. It would introduce Sun to a commercial field it knows very little about: namely, making and selling computers for both business and ordinary consumers...
Twinlights' pinnacle is its remake of the obscure "Pink Orange Red." Like 1984's "The Spangle-Maker," their most accessible and popular song to date, "Pink Orange Red" never really resolves. The first minute of the song consists of Fraser's tentative vocals hovering over three muted piano chords. Fragile acoustic finger-picking and the barely audible pulse of synthesized strings are slowly woven in while Fraser's voice soars to subtly cathartic heights. The song ends by spiraling into a minute of vocal trilling that calls to mind the continuous, fluttering fall of autumn leaves...
Nobody in the computer industry--or on Wall Street--needs to be told what large application company McNealy has in mind. Microsoft, as the world's biggest maker of software for personal computers, has the most to lose should a new, non-Microsoft programming language take hold. Microsoft not only owns the operating system that runs 8 out of 10 desktop computers, but it dominates the market for most other software as well, from application programs (word processors, spreadsheets, encyclopedias) to programming languages to a wide variety of programming tools. All this would be undermined should Java catch on. "Java...
...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...
Four Apple vice presidents resigned after the computer maker said it would report a quarterly loss of $68 million, or 55¢ a share. A fifth executive may soon follow. Industry analysts also expect Apple to lay off as many as 3,000 people...