Word: ulric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with DEC's machines. To help launch the 9370s, IBM is augmenting its sales force with employees transferred from other divisions. One problem, though, is that the company will not be able to ship the 9370 line in large quantities until the second half of 1987. Says Computer Analyst Ulric Weil of the Gartner Group, a Stamford, Conn.-based research firm: "By delaying delivery, IBM is playing into DEC's hands. A year can be an eternity. Only IBM's most loyal customers will wait...
Apple (1984 sales: $1.5 billion) is often characterized as the corporate equivalent of a gawky adolescent. Though no longer a youthful entrepreneur, it remains in many ways immature. "Apple is feeling growing pains and is losing its innocence," says Ulric Weil, a computer analyst who watches the company for the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm...
Some industry observers are dubious about the prospects of a happy marriage between IBM, a huge company that is famed for its buttoned-down, highly regimented managerial style, and Rolm, a 15-year-old firm nurtured in the free-spirited environs of California's Silicon Valley. Said Ulric Weil, an industry analyst for the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "History shows that acquisitions of this type, when you mix corporate cultures, don't work. IBM is taking a big risk." Rolm employees set their own work hours; a million-dollar recreation center at the firm's campus-like...
...million advertising and promotion budget, and it may yet correct some of the machine's deficiencies. Says Bill Wallace, co-president of the Dallas-based Compco computer-store chain: "IBM will do whatever fine tuning it has to do to make its product viable." In fact, says Ulric Weil, a computer analyst at Morgan Stanley, IBM could sell as many as half a million PCjrs by year's end if it cuts its price by at least 15%. Warns Weil: "It's premature to eulogize the Junior...
...tellingly frequent response from, among others, panelist Alfred Kahn, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under Jimmy Carter. An expert on the telephone industry, Kahn presided over the deregulation of U.S. airlines in the late 1970s and is now a professor of political economy at Cornell. Says Ulric Weil, telecommunications analyst for investment bank Morgan Stanley: "No honest observer can claim to know where this is all going." Agrees Peter J. Jadrosich, a vice president of Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis: "We believe historical performance may be nearly irrelevant to predicting future success...