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From: T. Edwards
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 00:00

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Gtaes is about to begin losing to Sun Microsystems (via their focus on
networks) if he doesn't get this ass in gear.

Andy Biegel <chef...@culinary.com> wrote in article
<33ff055c...@nntp.xsite.net>...
> On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 03:56:42 GMT, da...@antispam.halcyon.com (David B.
> Greene) wrote:
> 
> >
> >>Many of the world's richest have lots of assets.
> >>But what Bill Gates have is more than enough assets.
> >>This guy is perhaps more powerful than Bill Clinton some day.
> >>He is already in control of the world-wide software market on computer
> >>desktops and he's moving into server areas with Windows NT.
> >>Give him another 10 years,  it will be difficult to imagine what
> >>awesome power he has beyond the computer software industry as our
> >>civilization grows more and more dependent on software to run.
> >
> >What happened to Gates's plan to circle the globe with satellites?
> >
> 
> Isn't Motorola in progress with such a plan for cell phone use? A
> project named Iridium, i believe...
> 
> 
>

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From: "T. Edwards" <tsed...@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Richest People in the World
Date: 1997/08/25
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