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...software together, some observers quickly pumped up the familiar Microsoft versus [insert latest tech threat here] story. Sun?s CEO is the fallen tech star Scott McNealy, who seems to be obsessed with vanquishing Microsoft. Google, the game-changing upstart, is now led by a battle-worn veteran, Eric Schmidt, who has been beaten up a couple times by Microsoft himself, but lived to fight another...
...Schmidt has deep roots in the tech industry. He was Sun?s chief technology officer but left to join Novell as CEO in 1997. If you don?t remember Novell, you?re forgiven. They?re the guys who owned WordPerfect and, like Sun, were eventually stomped by Bill Gates?s big boots. Since joining Google as its CEO in 2001, Schmidt has presided over huge growth, and all that cash has fueled forays into Microsoft territory, with applications like desktop search and Gmail...
...Schmidt's missions, administration officials say, is to determine whether the White House can take any logistical steps to help American reporters and other journalists to gather news at a time when it is often too dangerous for them to leave their compounds. The officials say Schmidt's trip is at the request of the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalizad, but is supported at the highest levels of the White House. "We want to see if there's a disconnect between what people in the United States are seeing on their televisions and in their newspapers, and the reality...
...Schmidt's Second Preps For a Supreme Court Nominee
...Schmidt's most recent project was running the White House communications operation supporting the nomination of John G. Roberts, who will have the President on hand Monday at the Supreme Court for an investiture ceremony as chief justice. Administration officials say that in Schmidt's absence, the slack will be taken up by Jim Dyke, who was Republican National Committee (RNC) communications director during the reelection campaign and now runs a consulting firm, Jim Dyke & Associates, in Charleston, S.C. Aides tell TIME that the confirmation team for Harriet Miers, Bush's second nominee, will not include Fred Thompson...