Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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This news is more than anything a warning shot to the rest of software that everybody is going to be involved in a feeding frenzy. You are going to see a lot of smaller players go away.
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That's what is behind Microsoft's interest in AOL. They are looking at combining MSN and AOL, two underperforming assets, cut the costs, and come up with a single productive asset. Both MSN IM and Yahoo IM are on the outs. AOL dominates that market. So this deal has the same idea behind it as MSN/AOL.
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Microsoft has realized that PCs are not the center of the world. E-business or online services to enterprises could become the next big area of growth for the company.
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Microsoft has a long-term e-business goal that involves MSN. They've got to keep MSN alive and relevant enough within the marketplace until they have their e-business web channel ready.
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Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.
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We played as well as we've played all year long defensively for one half, but it's my fault that after being evenly matched in the first half we didn't get it done,
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We're blessed with a little bit of speed. The skill people, if they find a crack, they can take it to the house.
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The problem is the lawsuit is holding them up from answering the competitive threat.
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With Microsoft taking the bottom out of the market's pricing structure, we are going to see that business slow down even more precipitously.
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If Oracle continues to fight, this stops being an economic decision for the company and looks more and more like an emotional decision.
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From our point of view, anything that forces a shutdown will speed up a settlement, which we view as a positive event.
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IBM still has to grow the top line. They have been cutting costs, but they have to do something more.
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I would be a liar if I said my desire to get back into the ring had never waned,
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I have had friends and family ask why we cannot get something done about this.