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In 1996 it acquired Novell WordPerfect and started competing with the thought of being " Pepsi to Microsoft's Coke " as Microsoft Word was the top-used word processing software at the time.
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In 1996 Borland acquired Open Environment Corp ( OEC ), a Cambridge based company founded by John J. Donovan.
* Ruby-Spears ( some properties licensed 1987, some properties acquired 1996 )
The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.
From 1979 to 2010, Mazda had a partnership with the Ford Motor Company, who acquired a 7 % stake in 1979 and by 1996, owned 33. 3 % of Mazda.
In 1996, FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia and released as Flash, contracting " Future " and " Splash ".
Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).
In 1996, Philips acquired source code rights from CDMATICS.
In 1996 the Union Pacific acquired the Southern Pacific.
Following an announcement on December 20, 1996, on February 4, 1997, Apple Computer acquired NeXT for $ 429 million, and used the OPENSTEP for Mach operating system as the basis for OS X.
With a sports division now established with the arrival of the NFL, Fox acquired over-air broadcast rights to the National Hockey League ( 1994 – 99 ), Major League Baseball ( since 1996 ), and NASCAR auto racing ( since 2001 ).
Under the terms of the deals, if the Yeltsin government did not repay the loans by September 1996, the lender acquired title to the stock and could then resell it or take an equity position in the enterprise.
* PyroTechnix, founded as Computer Presentation, acquired February 1996, closed in 1999.
* Headgate Studios in Bountiful, Utah, founded in 1992, acquired April 1996, sold to original owner in 1999.
* Synergistic Studios, founded in 1978, acquired in 1996, studio closed in 1999.
In 1996, The Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities / ABC, and renamed the broadcasting group ABC, Inc., although the network continues to also use American Broadcasting Companies, such as on TV productions it owns.
In 1996 PACCAR acquired DAF Trucks.
During the 1996 off-season, the Lakers acquired 17-year-old Kobe Bryant from the Charlotte Hornets for Vlade Divac ; Bryant was drafted 13th overall out of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania in that years draft, by Charlotte.
In 1996, Morgan Stanley acquired Van Kampen American Capital.
USD in 1996, Marconi Electronic Systems, a subsidiary of General Electric, was acquired by British Aerospace for 12. 9 bil.
In December 1996, the parallel software development business was acquired by Sun Microsystems, forming the basis of Sun's entry into High Performance Computing.
The company was acquired by L ' Oréal in 1996.
Virgin acquired European short-haul airline Euro Belgian Airlines in 1996 and renamed it Virgin Express.
In 1996 the Norwegian conglomerate Kværner acquired Trafalgar House, and attempted to sell Cunard.
In 1995, West Midlands Travel, the formerly municipally-owned bus network of Birmingham and the West Midlands, was acquired and renamed Travel West Midlands in September 1996.
In 1996 the group acquired its first UK rail franchises, Gatwick Express and Midland Mainline.
1996 and Novell
Its predecessor was WordPerfect Suite, assembled by Novell in 1994 and sold to Corel in 1996.
Novell DOS was also sold to Caldera in 1996.
From 1988 to 1996, McBride was a manager at Novell, where he managed the business relationship with Novell KK ( Japan ) and later was promoted to vice president and general manager of Novell's Embedded Systems Division ( NEST ).
In 1996, he offered a challenge to Microsoft with a move into productivity software, acquiring WordPerfect from Novell for $ 158 million.
* EmuTOS-internationalized GPL version of TOS ROMs ( based on open-sourced GEM sources Caldera bought from Novell in 1996 along with DR-DOS )
In 1995 he was elected a director of Novell, serving as acting chairman from August 1996 to April 1997 and as vice chairman until 2001.
IPP began as a proposal by Novell for the creation of an Internet printing protocol project in 1996.
In 1996 it also acquired the Digital Research assets from Novell and immediately brought a lawsuit against Microsoft that largely duplicated the claims that the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) and Department of Justice had pursued in the early 1990s.
In February 1996, BEA Systems made an exclusive agreement with Novell to develop and distribute Tuxedo on non-NetWare platforms, with most Novell employees working with Tuxedo joining BEA.
Another product was DR-DOS, an MS-DOS – compatible operating system, previously developed by Caldera UK, Ltd. between 1996 and 1999 and originally acquired from Novell by Caldera, Inc., on 23 July 1996.
Caldera bought DR DOS from Novell in 1996.
1996 and WordPerfect
WordPerfect and Quattro Pro were sold to Corel in 1996.
1996 and started
However, it soon started losing money due to over-expansion, went bankrupt on July 15, 1996, and was liquidated.
1996 for Earnhardt started just as it had done in 1993 – he dominated Speedweeks only to finish second in the Daytona 500 to Dale Jarrett for a second time.
Star receiver Michael Irvin was suspended by the league for the first five games of 1996 following a drug-related arrest ; he came back after the Cowboys started the season 2-3 ; they finished 10-6 and won the NFC East title, but were eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs 26-17 by the second-year Carolina Panthers.
The project was started by Alex Jarrett in February 1996 because he " liked the idea of visiting a location represented by a round number such as 43 ° 00 ' 00 " N 72 ° 00 ' 00 " W. What would be there?
The students — Peter Unold, Claus Leth Gregersen and Allan Ove Kjeldbjerg — started development in November 1995 ; the first playable version was released in January, 1996, with bugfixing and small enhancements until April.
In 1996, Orchises Press, a small publishing house in Virginia, started the process to publish " Hapworth " in book form.
Vodacom Lesotho started operating in 1996 with the Government of Lesotho as a shareholder through its stake in Lesotho Telecommunications Corporation.
* The Calgary Corpus dating back to 1987 is no longer widely used due to its small size, although Leonid A. Broukhis still maintains The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge, which started in 1996.
Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ).
* 1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
After the Federal criminal investigation ended in 1996, Zimmermann and his team started a company to produce new versions of PGP encryption.
The team started having training camp at Lehigh in 1996.
Kurzweil started Kurzweil Educational Systems in 1996 to develop new pattern-recognition-based computer technologies to help people with disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia and ADD in school.
A testing initiative was started in 1996.
Super-Kamiokande started operation in 1996.
The party started collecting petitions in 1995 for the 1996 election.
In 1996, the Unification Church started a $ 10-million project called Tiempos Del Mundo, a newspaper in Spanish circulating in 16 countries of Latin America, " a newspaper for half a Hemisphere ", as The New York Times called it.
The UNL Programme started in 1996, as an initiative of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan.
At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts.
In 1986, WHO started it global programme on the growing problem of HIV / AIDS, followed two years later by additional attention on preventing discrimination against sufferers and UNAIDS was formed in 1996.
1996 ( MCMXCVI ) was a leap year that started on a Monday.
The Australian ISP BigPond employed this system when it started cable modem tests in 1996.
The French approval process started in 1996 with concerns about taurine, a normal body constituent and also naturally present in the human diet ( e. g., scallops, fish, poultry ).
In 1996, Kauffman started BiosGroup, a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based for-profit company that applied complex systems methodology to business problems.
In the 1996 / 1997 season, the Dutch women's team started using the skates with great success.
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