“Palm has reached a critical mass.”
3Com CEO Eric Benhamou, explaining why he wants to hand off Palm Computing’s explosive potential to the public as soon as possible (and before it gets nuked by Handspring’s new Visor), Wired News, 13 September 1999
“Marc[‘s] … presence in the Valley and his strategic insights will be continuing strengths for AOL.”
America Online CEO Steve Case, on the resignation of Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen as AOL’s chief technology officer, ZDNN, 10 September 1999
“Can you say, ‘MarketWatch on MTV’?”
CBS MarketWatch editor-in-chief Thom Calandra, musing on the no-doubt certain appeal of hard-core financial reporting to Beavis and Butthead, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 September 1999
“This is network computing 2.0. We’ve learned a lot in the last two years.”
Sun Microsystems president Ed Zander, on why the new Sun Ray terminal stands a chance of finding customers, unlike the earlier JavaStation, The New York Times, 8 September 1999
“For us, the Internet is not an add-on — it’s a major, giant new growth business.”
Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, on his designs for the Web after he merges his Net-clueless media company with CBS, another Net-clueless media company, News.com, 7 September 1999
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