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...Silicon Valley rumors abounded that Oracle was looking to buy someone out. The name mentioned most often was that of Tom Siebel, another of Ellison's estranged proteges and CEO of Siebel Systems. Siebel executive vice president David Schmaier, however, says the company is an "acquirer" as opposed to an "acquiree." (Ellison describes Siebel as "in play" but says the company is too vulnerable for him to consider purchasing...
...voice-mail hell here) detects a note of agitation in your voice, she'll put you through to Kelly Chessen, 29, the company's data-crisis counselor. Kelly will not tell customers her title or that her last job was managing a suicide hot line in nearby Napa Valley. But that experience is more useful than you might imagine. "Sometimes people say that when their computer crashed, they wanted to throw it and themselves out of the window," says Chessen. "That's when I ask if they're actually thinking about committing suicide. Most of the time...
...first experiment ever in steam-powered electricity was conducted in Larderello, when five light bulbs were lit by a dynamo propelled by geothermal liquid. Nine years later, the first steam-generated power plant was built in this area - once known as Valle del Diavolo (Devil's Valley) for the boiling liquid that bubbled out of the ground. But this swath of central Tuscany is not bathing in nostalgia. It continues to produce 10% of the world's geothermal power - about 4.8 billion kW-h per year - while one-quarter of the entire Tuscan region's electricity comes from local steam...
...distinctly non-liberal-arts move, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces that it will begin assembling a program to give undergraduates the skills needed to become high-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneurs...
Gabrieli cites a widely-quoted speech by Summers in which he proposed Boston as a Silicon Valley East for biotech research as evidence of Harvard’s influence among academics and businesspeople alike...