Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...programmers, who are always on the lookout for what they call a "new platform" on which to write new, hot-selling software. The virtual Java machine represents, as Sun co-founder Bill Joy puts it, "the lightest-weight platform we've ever had"--made not of metal, plastic and silicon but of a few thousand lines of code...
Programmers who find the market for Windows software increasingly crowded and unprofitable see fresh opportunities to make their mark in Java. "The geeks are buzzed," says Dave Winer, a Silicon Valley-based programmer and self-described geek. "It's like a whole world just opened...
...thought of all those lawyers making all that cash from all those lawsuits is probably the only thing that could have brought together the unusual political coalition of consumer advocates, Silicon Valley executives and conservative political operatives that calls itself the Alliance to Revitalize California. The group, formed last January, includes Michael Johnson, a onetime Nader's Raider; Bill Zimmerman, a former campaign director for liberal state senator Tom Hayden; Tom Proulx, the co-founder of the software company Intuit Inc.; and Ken Khachigian, a prominent adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As Khachigian says, "If you told...
...forces have put together a diverse alliance of their own, including senior citizens (many of whom are stockholders) and civil rights advocates who fear that lower contingency fees will shut out poor clients. "These so-called tort reforms are bought and paid for by the Silicon Valley guys," says William Carrick, a consultant to the No forces. "They know that if they only put the shareholders' initiative forward, they'll get voted down. So they camouflage it with the no-fault and fee caps...
...revenge of the nerd. Outplotting, outprogramming and above all outthinking his competitors, he rose to the top of an industry that is driven by shifting alliances, rapid technological changes and the steady drumbeat of Moore's law (after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who observed that the power of silicon chips doubles every 18 months). Nobody navigates these turbulent complexities better than Gates, who understands as few do that the great lever of wealth and power in the digital age is not hardware or even software but control over the standards to which others must adhere. Today...