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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...
...industry is already waiting for IBM's next acquisition. Predicts Morgan Stanley's Weil: "Now that the precedent has been set and the taboo broken, IBM won't stop at Rolm." One possible target is Intel, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips, the key components of computers. IBM already owns 20% of Intel and may decide to go for more. -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Michael Moritz/San Francisco
...Anne Weil South Harpswell...
...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...
Defense Linemen Rick Bryan Oklahoma, William Perry, Clemson Don Thorp, II; Reggie White. Tennessee; Linebackers--Ricky Hunley, Arizona; Jeff Leiding, Texas; Ron Rivera, California; deep backs--Russell Carter, SMU; Jerry Gray, Texas; Terry Hoage, Georgia; Don Rogers, UCLA; Specialists--kicker--Luis Zendejas, Arizona State; punter--Jack Weil, Wyoming...