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This confluence of technical expertise, market opportunity and ruthless efficiency has made Cisco the fastest company in history to reach $100 billion, $200 billion and, last month, $300 billion in market capitalization, leaving it the third largest company in the world behind General Electric and Microsoft. Cisco has built dominant market share in a crucial high-technology industry--controlling 50% of the $21 billion business-network market, where it has obliterated once formidable rivals like 3Com, Cabletron and Bay Networks. "We definitely are in the sweet spot," says Chambers of Cisco's prospects. "The whole network business has become...
Even as the company has grown to become the king of the data network, it has remained, in many consumers' minds, a question mark. Ask most people what Microsoft or Intel do, and they'll tell you. But Cisco? "I don't know," says Harriet Sumner, 30, a customer-service manager for a computer-game company, "but I own the stock...
America's most famous CEO is no longer a CEO. With an antitrust case and a major shift in the market of his firm's core area of business looming, Bill Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft Thursday, handing the reins to long-time protégé and college buddy Steve Ballmer. Gates for his part will ratchet back to the role of chairman and "chief software architect." The move ends a 25-year stretch as Redmond's top dog, during which Microsoft became the world's most valuable firm and Gates its wealthiest individual. In that time...
...protection of its assets is Apple, and with the impending debut of its all-new operating system, code-named Aqua, Apple is cracking down on anyone who might infringe on its "look and feel." Its latest target is skinz.org, a site that offers software designed to make Microsoft's Windows operating system look and feel just like Aqua. A note posted at skinz.org reads, "Apple has contacted us and wants all the Mac skins removed ? it's a sad situation but there's nothing we can do but comply." So far, the offending skin, which is called WinAqua, is still...
...field there are 26-year-olds operating hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of equipment with hundreds of people under their command. There aren't many people in the private sector who can make the same claim." Maybe so, but then again, not many Microsoft employees are asked to ship off to the Balkans for half-year stretches...