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...average working person on the street. Sure, at first we all chuckled a bit upon hearing he was running. But he won us over quickly with his honesty, intelligence and true loyalty to the people of this state. Politicians have a lot to learn from Ventura. DIANE SALISBURY Apple Valley, Minn...
Good luck. The smart guys in Silicon Valley, whose condescension toward AOL has risen in direct proportion to its embrace by the public, have never considered the company a serious technology player. "America Online has built an exceptional franchise on a technology base that could charitably be called dated," says Roger McNamee, founder of the high-tech investment firm Integral Partners. "It has been difficult for its partners to work with, and for AOL itself to maintain." How can the company possibly hope to compete in the corporate networking market if its own network is held together with Scotch tape...
...typical Jobs: quick, dismissive and at least half wrong. Jobs ended up licensing Microsoft's BASIC after all (on terms that turned out to be, as usual, very advantageous to Apple). And though he went on to become, for a time, the golden boy of Silicon Valley--in 1981 Apple's $334 million in sales dwarfed Microsoft's puny $15 million--it was Bill Gates who became the emperor of all computerdom...
Johnson, who lives in nearby Paradise Valley, chose the Diamondbacks over the Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers and Texas Rangers because he wants to play close to home, and he thinks Arizona is making moves to quickly become a contender...
...this the way Redmond's market dominance ends--not with an antitrust bang but a contractually negligent whimper? Such an outcome would be favorable to the start-ups of Silicon Valley, where the specter of federal regulation is just as terrible as that of Microsoft. "This is more important than the antitrust case," says Mark Radcliffe, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney for tech firms. "People are looking for something that doesn't have the taint of government intrusion, and this plays on their desire to let technology solve the problem...