IP: apple stew (from edupage)

[David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

ELLISON SAYS JOBS WILL TAKE THE JOB
According to an interview in Friday's La Tribune, a French financial
newspaper, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says he will be taking a seat on Apple's
board of directors, and that despite reports to the contrary, Steve Jobs
will become chairman.  In addition, Ellison says he plans to invest an
undisclosed amount of his personal wealth in Apple, as a hedge against a
Microsoft monopoly.  (InfoWorld Electric 1 Aug 97)


THE PEOPLE AND MARKETS IN APPLE'S EYE
Meanwhile, while he is working hard at recruiting a new CEO and new board
members for Apple, Steve Jobs is refocusing the company on the education and
publishing markets and mandating a crash program to develop a stripped-down
"network computer" based on Macintosh technology and aimed at the home and
education markets.  His first choice for new CEO is Kodak chief executive
George M.C. Fisher, but Fisher has been saying that he has no desire to
leave Kodak.  As new board members, Jobs wants Larry Ellison of Oracle, John
Warnock of Adobe, and investment banker Daniel Case of Hambrecht & Quist.
(New York Times 1 Aug 97)