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...that for the next 10 years, the technology market will be stuffed with firms aching to get rewired but without a clue about where to begin. IBM plans to sell these folks "solutions," the institutional equivalent of your nephew Phil, the relative you call when you're debating which PC to buy or wondering how to rescue the last half of that tax return you were preparing. Gerstner's Big Blue will offer solutions to help point you safely to the future. If the old IBM was father Thomas Watson in his white shirt next to a multimillion-dollar mainframe...
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...
...course, home banking doesn't let you cash a paycheck, or withdraw funds; even Apple hasn't yet created a PC with a cash dispenser built into the chassis! But when it comes to checking balances and paying bills, you have access to your account 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...
Since I make my living online--at Pathfinder, an enterprise that will be working mouse in glove with CNN thanks to the merger of Time Warner with Turner Broadcasting--I thrill to any evidence that people are turning to their information appliance, the PC, when they need news fast. Like spaceships sent out to seek havens for a doomed civilization, mainstream media are trying to colonize cyberspace, but the early returns are mixed and revenue streams narrow. A few daring publishers have begun--apostasy!--billing visitors to their sites. The Wall Street Journal Interactive, for instance, announced last week that...
...about a business in an instant. Just as the car turned horse buggies into curiosities, new technology like the Internet, Grove predicts, will render obsolete hundreds of businesses that are thriving today. The lessons Grove has learned in building Intel into a giant resonate beyond the inside of a PC. "People who try and fight the wave of a new technology lose in spite of their best efforts," he writes. "They waste valuable time...