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...spat between Ellison and Conway would be little more than an amusing sideshow if not for two things. First, it shows the reach of Ellison's influence. He has been CEO of Oracle since 1977--several lifetimes in the tech industry--and a coterie of former Oracle executives, dubbed the Little Larrys, has fanned out to rule much of the business-software world. Conway, Siebel and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. com, a company that lets clients hire out its enterprise applications, are members of the Oracle alumni e-mail list. There is no love lost for Ellison among them...
...Third World labor costs and cheap currency. The firms have put their World Trade Organization complaints on hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement. As irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loans, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets - instead of clunky turboprops or inefficient...
...world George Foreman wants to tell you how he met Jesus Christ." I would get up and tell my story, and they would applaud and cry hallelujah. Mostly, they just gawked. "Oh, he's tall," they would say. Or, "He's got muscles." I felt like a sideshow...
...irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loan guarantees, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to soon explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets--instead of clunky turboprops or inefficient larger craft--to connect hub cities with smaller markets. Airline-industry analysts say regional jets are key to many airlines' survival...
...Third World labor costs and cheap currency. The firms have put their World Trade Organization complaints on hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement. As irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loan guarantees, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to soon explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets - instead of clunky turboprops...