The International Wire Group, a producer of wire used by makers of automobiles and computers, filed for bankruptcy protection to permit it to reorganize.
Last month Mr. Ellison announced that Oracle planned to introduce a new version of its Oracle 8 data base program code-named Raw Iron, which he said would be sold by makers of PC server computers, including Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer as an adaptation that would, in effect, render the operating system invisible to the user.
One depressant was a downgrade by Merrill Lynch of five makers of computer chips for communications.
These characteristics are prized, for example, by makers of cell phones and computers.
These included Avi Rubin and Dan Wallach, who led the team in 2003 that exposed deep flaws in the operating software used by Diebold, then one of the leading makers of computer voting terminals.
The LSIs can be used by makers of cell phones, digital cameras, computers and HDDs.
(Cisco owns close to 2percentt of VMware, a public company that is majority-owned by EMC, a maker of computer storage systems).
(Despite its historic role, MITS soon ran into financial difficulties and was acquired in May 1977 by Pertec, a maker of computer disk drives and tape drives).
Ship and forget will be supplanted by ship and update, which is what makers of computers and mobile devices do already.
