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Taking a column from the Ross Perot spreadsheet of political life, each week Minnick invites the press to a "Sunday Pork Chop," where he explains how to balance the federal budget. A Nixon Administration budget aide, Minnick wants to eliminate "corporate welfare," get our allies to foot part of the defense bill and trim spending without raising taxes or gutting entitlements...
WASHINGTON: "This was the canonical 'look and feel' lawsuit," says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling that denied copyright protection to the "menu command" portion of Lotus' 1-2-3 spreadsheet software. Voting without Justice John Paul Stevens, who earlier excused himself for undisclosed reasons, the court on a divided 4-4 vote upheld without comment a lower court ruling that Borland did not violate copyright laws when it incorporated an almost identical menu command bar into its own Quattro spreadsheet programs because the menu is a "method of operation" which does not qualify...
...prevails, however, IBM will gain a company that is struggling to hold on to its original niche. The Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet was the first blockbuster for PCs but has since been eclipsed by Microsoft's Excel. Lotus fell behind in spreadsheets and other programs, such as word processing and graphics, by being slow to develop software for Microsoft's Windows operating system, which now runs 90% of the world's desktop computers. Although programs like spreadsheets accounted for two-thirds of Lotus revenues of $971 million last year (Notes and other communications software made up the rest), declining...
...user but of critical importance to the programmer. For example, Microsoft has for several years been using a tool called ole (for object linking and embedding) that makes it easier for users to move information from one Windows application to another-to shuttle an expense report from a spreadsheet to a word-processing document, for example. Apple is developing a competing system, called OpenDoc, that is supposed to run equally well on Windows, Mac and IBM's OS/2. But if a programmer uses OpenDoc instead of ole, he runs the risk that Microsoft will at some future point make...
...togain back lost ground in the high-tech world, IBM announced a $3.3 billion hostile takeover bid for Lotus Development Corp., maker of the popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet and other software. "Together, our skills match in a way that is breathtaking," IBM's chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner told a news conference. (Lotus, the third-largest PC software company after Microsoft and Novell, rejected IBM's buyout suggestions during five months of private talks, but today said it would consider the $60 per share cash offer, which amounts to twice its market value.)TIME senior technology editor Philip...