How Bill became Larry: the network computer.(Bill Gates of Microsoft Corp.; Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp.)
Economist (US), The, May, 1997
Oracle has promoted the idea of a future in which network computers, rather than personal computers, are dominant, and the idea also has been embraced by Microsoft. Microsoft has gotten off to a faster start, but the choice between Windows and Java software may eventually decide the battle.
AS CORPORATE battle-cries go, Microsoft's "embrace and extend" sounds a little too cuddly. But the companies that declared war on the software giant by introducing the notion of network computers (NCs) are learning that a bear hug from Bill Gates is hardly a warm and fuzzy experience. A year and a half after Larry Ellison, Oracle's Microsoft-bashing boss, proposed a new kind of Internet-based computer to challenge Mr Gates's dominance, there is now broad agreement that NCs are indeed...
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