Oracle's Network Computing origins and strategy

From: James <walters45_at_aol.com>
Date: 1998/03/12
Message-ID: <MPG.f72100fdeccaae9989972@news2.zocalo.net>#1/1

Before there was a Larry Ellison or a Scott McNealy, there was Kenneth Olsen, founder and former CEO of Digital Computers. He thinks that personal computers are wreaking havoc in businesses, that companies are floundering in a sea of excess computing power. In his quest to pursue a more simple model for doing computing through technology came the network computer. He discusses how he intends to apply this to the business model at Fortune Online, with whom I work:

http://www.pathfinder.com/r0/fortune/ng/in?/fortune/1998/980316/bus1.html

P.S. Look for this year's Fortune 500, due out in early April Received on Thu Mar 12 1998 - 00:00:00 CST