Japan's Lou Gerstner

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Tadashi Sekizawa, head of Fujitsu, the second-largest computer manufacturer in the world, was able to make preparations from the shift away from mainframes to networked personal computers. He has implemented significant changes in corporate culture, and has also shed 10% of Fujitsu's 40,000 employees since 1993. He believes that PCs are becoming appliances like telephones, and is seeking to sell customers the infrastructure that links PCs together, rather than the PCs themselves.

Publisher: Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
Analog & Hybrid Computers, Microcomputers, Column, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Fujitsu Ltd., Sekizawa, Tadashi

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Rosen Cavalier

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Compaq chairman, Ben Rosen has held this position since 1983, when the company was founded. Rosen has sacked Eckhard Pfieffer, who had been Compaq's chief executive for eight years, following a profit warning by the company. Rosen played a major role in the birth and development of the market for PCs. Compaq has become a more complex business following the acquisitions of Digital Equipment and Tandem, and Rosen has to find a replacement for Pfieffer.

Publisher: Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
Computers & Auxiliary Equip, Compaq Computer Corp., CPQ

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Stealing each other's clothes

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Sun Microsystems' battle with IBM in the market for high-powered computers for companies exposes inconsistencies in Sun's long-term strategy. Sun claims to support open standards and the free operating system Linux, but it is also trying to protect its own Solaris software.

Publisher: Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2001
Digital Computers, Medium, Dedicated Computers, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUNW, Mainframe computers, Servers (Computers)

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