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What is it about the ocean and media moguls? Ted Turner, Robert Maxwell and now RUPERT MURDOCH have all made news on the water. Murdoch, an avid sailor, helped Oracle CEO Larry Ellison win Australia's most prestigious yacht race, the Sydney to Hobart. Although he described his role as "acting as a bit of ballast," Murdoch also took turns at the grinder, in the galley and at the helm during the three-day race. And all this while injured. A few days before the race, Murdoch caught his right index finger between the sail and the boom...
Balliner was challenging Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's recent announcement that the growth of the network meant the death of the personal computer. Ellison and others argue that the utility of computers lies in the information they provide, and that a stripped-down computer--essentially a monitor and a keyboard--connected to the Internet was just as useful (if not moreso) than a very powerful computer sitting on one's desktop...
Consider first the fundamental question: Where does the utility of the computer lie? Ellison is correct in claiming that computers are useful as a means of accessing information. However, what's at stake is not the information itself, but how the computer accesses it and what it can do with it once...
...doubt it. These companies have made it their goal to break the so-called "Wintel" dominance over the computer market (the large number of users using Microsoft products on Intel-based machines). While this announcement certainly raises the question over the future effectiveness of the personal computer model, realistically, Ellison and his peers are spewing hype rather than predicting the future...
Brian Douglas Ellison...