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That Microsoft, Inc., is an important force in high tech today is a given. About 90 percent of all personal computers run some version of Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Word and Office are the number one word processor and office software suite respectively on both Windows and Macintosh PC's...
Last week, Netscape laid off almost a tenth of its workforce in a cost-cutting action, a joint venture with industry giant Novell was canned, and the company has cut back much of its research into newer technologies, like Java. Now, Once-mighty Netscape finds itself the target of buyout...
NOVELL HIRES A GEEK GODZILLA
Novell is a company that has been repeatedly torpedoed and nearly sunk by Microsoft. The Utah-based firm (1996 sales: $1.3 billion) owned the market for local- area-network software in the early 1990s, but has been losing share to Microsoft's Windows NT. Though Novell has tried to refocus...
But now Novell has a big geek of its own. Sun Microsystems' house genius, Eric Schmidt, 41, is going to head up the struggling company. Schmidt is credited with helping build Sun (1996 sales: $7 billion) into a hardware behemoth. Soft-spoken and given to windy though usually hysterical jokes...