Spencer, who is all of 29 years old, is poised to disrupt the $7 billion market for office telecom switches (often called PBXs) much the way the Linux open-source computer operating system crushed the price of business computing and brought woe to established leaders such as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
After two years of deliberation, Judge Jackson ruled in April that Microsoft had abused its monopoly over Windows, the operating system that runs nearly all personal computers, to crush competition.
Under Mr. Edelman, Datapoint, once a leading-edge producer of computer networking equipment, collapsed, crushed by losses and a series of irregularities.
Its effort in personal computer software, OS/2, was quickly crushed by Microsoft's market-dominating Windows.
And oh yes -- please don't be crushed when you receive a computer-generated rejection letter a couple of days later.
Crushed against the wall by a computer, almost buried by the boardroom curtains, is a genuine Oscar.
He said the photos were in file drawers in the company's 14th-floor offices, which were crushed under the collapsed ceiling, along with computers documenting the collection.
As I bunched and crushed various items into the splayed bag, I activated my computer.
But the court rejected a plea by Microsoft to annul the fine, which was imposed in 2008 as part of a decade-long battle over the way Microsoft used its Windows computer operating system to crush competition.
Beware not to crush the computer!
