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...seriously irate include not only the chairman of Intel but also those of Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor and other companies; they expressed their misgivings last September in an urgent letter to Representative Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The letter noted that foreign students account for one-third to one-half of all those enrolled in U.S. graduate schools in science and engineering. "It should be no surprise," the executives wrote, "that highly skilled U.S. engineers are not always available on a timely basis." Microchip giant Intel, for example, hired...
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...
During that time, another victim reported that an $800 Hewlett-Packard fax machine was also stolen from a secured office in the science center...
...January and learned of the takeover attempt in a phone call from Gerstner at 8:25 a.m. last Monday, five minutes before IBM went public. Manzi swiftly hired investment banker Lazard Freres to plot defense tactics and search for a white knight, such as AT&T or Hewlett-Packard, that would rescue Lotus. No savior had appeared by week's end, however, and Manzi seemed resigned to coming to terms with IBM if it would sweeten its offer. Wall Street watchers expected IBM to do just that to make the deal friendlier...
...theory, therefore, RISC chips are the wave of the future and CISC chips are a technological dead-end. Most microprocessor companies have voted with their feet by shifting design resources to RISC-based architectures. MIPS, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Sun Microsystems, IBM, Apple and Motorola are all converts...