1 ( ZBTV ), ( plus one cable company ) ( 1997 )

In November 1997, Borland acquired Visigenic, a middleware company that was focused on implementations of CORBA.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

Dick Brass, a Vice President at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, complained that the company was slow in moving ClearType to market in the portable computing field.

At the same time, Compaq, through its acquisitions of the Digital Equipment Corporation last year and Tandem Computer in 1997, has tried to become a major systems company, like I. B. M.

In 1997 she and business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films, with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed.

In 1997, Scott Adams masqueraded as a management consultant to Logitech executives ( as Ray Mebert ), with the cooperation of the company ’ s vice-chairman.

In 1997, Don Yannias, a long-time associate and investment advisor of Safra, became CEO of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. A new company, Britannica. com Inc. was spun off in 1999 to develop the digital versions of the Britannica ; Yannias assumed the role of CEO in the new company, while that of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. remained vacant for two years.

Scott Kurowski wrote the Internet PrimeNet Server that supports the research to demonstrate Entropia-distributed computing software, a company he founded in 1997.

After a visit to Transmeta in late 1996, Torvalds accepted a position at the company in California, where he would work from February 1997 until June 2003.

In order to make money for his newly founded company, he made The Kingdom ( Riget, 1994 ) and The Kingdom II ( Riget II, 1997 ), a pair of miniseries recorded in the Danish national hospital, the name " Riget " being a colloquial name for the hospital known as Rigshospitalet ( lit.

During SGI's ownership of MIPS, the company introduced the R8000 in 1994 and the R10000 in 1996 and a follow up the R12000 in 1997.

That company was acquired by Network Associates ( NAI ) in December 1997, and Zimmermann stayed on for three years as a Senior Fellow.

By 1997, Miramax shut down the company due to " lack of interest " in the pictures released.

In 1997, the Mateba company developed a type of recoil-operated automatic revolver, commercially named the Mateba Autorevolver, which uses the recoil energy to auto-rotate a normal revolver cylinder holding six or seven cartridges, depending on the model.

In 1997, Telkom, the South African telecommunications parastatal, was partly privatised and entered into a strategic equity partnership with a consortium of two companies, including SBC, a U. S. telecommunications company.

The most profitable company in the region is Fiat Auto-Poland S. A. in Bielsko-Biała with a revenue of PLN 6. 2 billion in 1997.

Since 1997, the Spanish government has privatised its interest in the company.

; Standards bloat: Bertrand Meyer, in a satirical essay framed as a student's request for a grade change, apparently criticized UML as of 1997 for being unrelated to object-oriented software development ; a disclaimer was added later pointing out that his company nevertheless supports UML.

Rick Boyce, a former media buyer with San Francisco advertising agency Hal Riney & Partners, spearheaded the sales effort for the company .< ref > Reid, Robert H. ( 1997 ).

* William “ Bill ” C. Moog ( died 1997 ), founder of Moog Inc, a company that designs and manufacturers motion and fluid controls and control systems for applications in aerospace, defense, industrial and medical device markets.

In late 1997, it became a Fortune 500 company led by one of its two founding Steves, hoping that the public would " Think different " and buy more of " The computer for the rest of us .".

IFE, a publicly held company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, was sold in 1997 to Fox Kids Worldwide, Inc. for $ 1. 9 billion, whereupon it was renamed Fox Family Channel.

After losing in the first round to the Vikings in 1997, the Giants needed to close out the season with four wins to finish 8 – 8 in 1998.

The city paid Marina Cartage and MAT Leasing $ 49 million between 1992 and 1997, for providing heavy equipment, snow removal equipment and operators when needed.

Collectivisation undermined incentives for the investment of labor and resources in agriculture ; unrealistic plans for decentralized metal production sapped needed labor ; unfavorable weather conditions ; and communal dining halls encouraged overconsumption of available food ( see Chang, G, and Wen, G ( 1997 ), " Communal dining and the Chinese Famine 1958-1961 " ).

The first important advancement of the Greeks was the creation of the alphabet based on a system previously used by the Phoenicians, adding vowels and other consonants needed in Greek ( see Robins, 1997 ).

Knowing that a made putt would extend the match while a miss would assure Leonard of a half-point and the U. S. a victory ( the Americans needed 14. 5 points to gain the cup due to the Europeans ' 1997 victory at Valderrama ), Olazábal tried to regain his focus.

On 1 April 1997, the European aviation market was fully deregulated, and concession was no longer needed to fly internationally between countries within the European Economic Area.

After a review of the United Kingdom coinage, it was decided that a general-circulation £ 2 coin was needed, and a new bi-metallic design was issued on 15 June 1998 ( dated 1997 ).

In only his third entry in a Grand Slam tournament, Wilander also became the player who needed the fewest attempts to win one, a record since equalled by Gustavo Kuerten at the 1997 French Open.

Grant ( 1997 ) argues that the Treaty was critical for the emergence of American expansionism ( later known as " Manifest Destiny "), because control of the Natchez and Tombigbee districts were needed for America's dominance of the Southwest.

It ran at the museum 1997 – 2005 when the engine needed more boiler work.

The decline in the party's membership and resources resulted in Elections Canada removing their status as a registered party immediately before the 1997 federal election when the party failed to run the minimum fifty candidates needed to maintain its registration.

" He was criticized in 1997 for responding to Golden State Warriors player Latrell Sprewell choking his coach P. J. Carlesimo by saying, " his boss may have needed choking.

After the branch north of Fort Totten opened, the Green Line Commuter Shortcut began as a six-month experiment on January 27, 1997, allowing passengers to get on a train on the Green Line segment during rush hours and travel as far as Farragut North on the Red Line without having to switch trains at Fort Totten ; a transfer was needed during off-peak hours.

The closely related " Mondeo man " was identified as the sort of voter the Labour Party needed to attract to win the 1997 election.

In 1997, the Palace was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, described in its nomination as " the swan song of the spectacular art of the Baroque, from which it adopted all the features needed to create the illusions of multidirectional space ".

In January, 1997, Worlds Inc., after failing to secure needed contracts and having spent its venture investment of over 15 million dollars, laid off almost the entire staff of the company, keeping only several employees which included the author of Gamma, now known as WorldsPlayer.

* Mary Mara as Inspector Bryn Carson: ( 1996 – 1997 ) The only female member of the SIU at the time, she was often used to go undercover when a woman's role was needed.

The murder sparked an ongoing debate in Japan about whether the age of criminal responsibility, shifted from 16 to 14 in 2000 due to the 1997 Kobe child murders, needed to be shifted again.

The main aim of the pilot schemes was “ to enable an accurate estimate to be made of the resources that would be needed to extend the scheme across the whole of England ” ( DNH 1997 ).

In 1997, Slimane Chikh, the Minister of Education, said that French needed to be phased out because it is preventing Arabic from reaching prominence and because it is leading Algerians away from English, the primary international language of commerce, computers, and science.

Earlier in May 1997, the film was accepted into the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, but Miramax declined the invitation due to re-shoots that were needed for the film, including footage of Stallone 40 pounds heavier.

At the time it was one of the largest acquisitions in banking history, and gave HSBC a major foothold in Europe, which it needed to complement its existing business in Asia and the Americas, when it had to move its Hong Kong-based headquarters to London in anticipation of the July 1, 1997 transfer of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, accepting primary banking supervision by the Bank of England.

Snobelen was moved to the Ministry of Natural Resources on October 10, 1997, amid speculation that the Harris government needed a more experienced minister to manage the Education portfolio ..

In early 1997, with Rangers trying to win their ninth title in a row, and with a huge injury list, manager Walter Smith desperately needed a striker, and re-signed Hateley for £ 300, 000 for the vital game against Rangers ' biggest rivals, Celtic.