The Justice Department decision announced Friday to break Microsoft Corp. into two competing companies, one to contain its Windows operating systems, which run more than 90 percent of the world's PCs today, and another to contain the rest of its business lines, including the popular Microsoft Office suite of applications, would do irreparable harm to
Automation Alley in Oakland County has emerged as America's newest and the Midwest's biggest technology cluster, defined by Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School as a "geographic concentration of inter-connected companies and institutions in a particular field." The genesis of Automation Alley as a dynamic consortium of 150 high-tech companies and growing can be
By Duane T. Rao I'm a big fan of violence. Not the fists-and-guns type of violence, but rather the growing-the-company type of violence. If you're not growing your company violently in today's market, you better be aware that your competitors who are violently pursuing the market will bury you. I've grown three companies into successful
By Gary E. Baker Ann Arbor is fast becoming a seat of technological revolution. In the midst of the "new economy"-driven by forces of consolidation, globalization and technological proliferation-new business models and new ways of doing business are emerging. To ensure that it will advance to the forefront of e-Business technologies, Arthur Andersen's Advanced Technology
When assessing the ever-evolving, rapidly changing information technology (IT)/communications horizon, you notice that many Companies are doing specific things well. Some companies handle DSL while others dedicate their model towards software design and delivery. Others deliver hardware and network design while the Company down the street offers Internet access and web design. And, no matter
Long-time Michigan computer entrepreneur Rick Inatome wasn't looking to leap into a California Internet startup last summer when he was approached by the founders of ZapMe! But once he flew out to the West Coast and starting rubbing elbows with 20-something gung-ho computer geeks working 18-hour days to make their dreams come true, Inatome caught
One of the facts that's hardest for business people to understand today is how the "Internet Changes Everything." ™ The Internet is, at the end of the day, a collection of wires and computers sending tiny electrical charges around the world - period. Amazon.com will sell you a book, or these days perhaps a power