Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than a year, two of Silicon Valley's most outspoken maverick CEOs--Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Larry Ellison of Oracle--have been promising to turn the PC industry on its ear with a revolutionary machine they call the network computer, or NC. This stripped-down, easy-to-use communications device would cost less than $500, plug seamlessly into all kinds of computer networks and lure millions of technophobic home users onto the Internet. Best of all, as far as McNealy and Ellison are concerned, it would be based on a new programming language, Java, that promises...
...programs (or "applets") they need directly from the Net. The price of the base machine, with one fast microSPARCII chip, starts at $750. By the time you add a keyboard and a monitor, however, the cost approaches $1,000--almost as much as a low-end Macintosh or Windows PC would cost...
Gerstner has revived the old-line software and hardware businesses that were at the root of the last corporate nosedive. He parachuted Thoman into the firm's struggling PC division with a mandate to clean up the mess. Thoman killed some of the group's nearly 500 models of machines and breathed life into those he kept while pounding costs through the floor. In January, IBM spent twice as much and took twice as long to make a PC as industry leader Compaq. Now it claims it has No. 1 beat...
Gerstner insists that the hardware-software balance he has struck so far is the right one. "When I got here, this industry was still believing the propaganda that was coming from some of the Pied Pipers--that the PC was the solution and that everybody would be able to run all of their computing needs on their wristwatch. I've been on the other side. It is far more complex...
...waved the white flag in its losing battle with Microsoft, the company is opening a new front. The weapons of choice, unveiled this week and available early next year, are its first "information appliances": portable, simple-to-use devices that will sell for less than $1,000 and combine PC functionality with palmtop mobility...