In 1997, Compaq bought Tandem Computers, known for their NonStop server line.

In 1997, Channel Seven bought the rights to the series, however they only aired a handful of episodes.

Some believe this may be due to deliberate price fixing by those who bought the stockpile echoing the warnings from the Japan Wildlife Conservation Society on price-fixing after sales to Japan in 1997, and monopoly given to traders who bought stockpiles from Burundi and Singapore in the 1980s.

In 1997, McLaughlin sold EFM to Jacor Communications, which was ultimately bought up by Clear Channel Communications.

On 13 February 1997, Prost bought the Ligier team from Flavio Briatore and renamed it " Prost Grand Prix ".

Just as bankruptcy in 1997 seemed inevitable, Wizards of the Coast stepped in and, fueled by income from its collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, bought TSR and all its properties.

It was bought by America Online on June 1, 1995 and sold to Excite on April 1, 1997.

After Apple bought NeXT in 1997, it announced it would base its next operating system on OPENSTEP.

In 1997, King World Productions bought the worldwide format rights to Hollywood Squares from MGM, successor-in-interest to the series ' previous production companies Orion and Filmways.

In 1997, Canwest bought majority control of the CBC affiliate in Quebec City, CKMI-TV, from TVA, which retained a 49 % interest until 2002.

Lodge's was bought in the 1990s by Co-operative Retail Services who eventually closed the store down in 1997, after investing in a brand new £ 2m supermarket for the town.

On June 28, 1997, Wells took the mound wearing an authentic 1934 Babe Ruth hat, which Wells bought for $ 35, 000.

The JCR is the wealthiest in Oxford due to the purchase and sale of a Francis Bacon ( artist ) painting in the early 20th century ; it was bought in 1953 for £ 150 and sold for £ 400, 000 in 1997.

In May 1992, they sold the brand to Tyco Toys, whose toy division in turn was bought out by Mattel in 1997, uniting Matchbox with its longtime rival Hot Wheels under the same corporate banner.

This piece was later bought by Charles Saatchi and included in the successful 1997 Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of London ; it then toured to Berlin and New York.

ABC was bought by The Walt Disney Company in 1996, which began airing all Disney-made programming by 1997 and canceled non-Disney made productions ( with the notable exception of The Bugs and Tweety Show, which continued to air until Warner Bros. ended the show in 2000 ).

Granada continued to expand by acquiring Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television for £ 652m in 1997 and bought UNM for £ 1. 75billion in 2000 – by which it acquired Anglia Television and Meridian Broadcasting and some divisions of HTV – the remaining divisions passing to rival company Carlton due to competition laws.

After it was bought by Schlumberger and sold to National Semiconductor, Fairchild was spun out as an independent company again in 1997.

Wizards of the Coast bought the troubled TSR in 1997, and Weis and Hickman then proposed the War of Souls trilogy, which was published in 2000 – 2002.

Reportedly, some members of the audience in Hong Kong and Taiwan repeatedly bought tickets and watched the feature in cinema over and over again in 1962, with some watching it over 20 times, a phenomenon also reported for features such as the Titanic ( 1997 ) and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) in the West.

In 1997, Kimberly-Clark sold its 50 % stake in Canada's Scott Paper to forest products company Kruger Inc. and bought diaper operations in Spain and Portugal and disposable surgical face masks maker Tecnol Medical Products.

UB went public in 1983 but was then bought by Tandem Computers in 1988 .< ref > UB was sold in 1997 by Tandem to Newbridge Networks.

But in 1997, KLM bought 30 % of Braathens ( as the airline was renamed ) and British Airways closed its Stavanger routes, because it lacked its own staff.

Since 1997, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs have presented three proposals to serve as a framework for resolving the conflict.

* 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

The ban was eventually lifted by the incoming Labour government in 1997, with the Government Communications Group of the Public and Commercial Services ( PCS ) Union being formed to represent interested employees at all grades.

* 1997 FAO / IAEA / WHO Joint Study Group on High-Dose Irradiation recommends to lift any upper dose limit

Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997

After 1997, the Austin Group developed the POSIX revisions.

Pepsi-Cola – 100 Years ( 1997 ), General Publishing Group, Los Angeles, CA, USA

* 1929 – Wally Whyton, English singer-songwriter ( The Vipers Skiffle Group ) ( d. 1997 )

In 1997, the Open Group released the Single UNIX Specification Version 2.

In January 1997, the X Consortium passed stewardship of X to The Open Group, a vendor group formed in early 1996 by the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X / Open.

These facilities were privatised in 1997 as Merlin Communications, which were later acquired and operated as part of a wider network for multiple broadcasters by VT Communications ( now part of Babcock International Group ).

The station was founded in Dover as Neptune Radio in September 1997 but moved to Folkestone in 2003 and was consequently rebranded after a takeover by the KM Group.

In 1997, Nature created its own website, www. nature. com, and in 1999 Nature Publishing Group began its series of Nature Reviews.

In parallel with this effort, some of the JFS development team returned to the AIX Operating System Development Group in 1997 and started to move this new JFS source base to the AIX operating system.

The Rosen Publishing Group, New York, 1997, ISBN 0-8239-1991-9 ( The heritage library of African peoples ).

Formerly the Australian Touring Car Championship, the current formula was devised in 1993 ( based on Group A regulations ) and branded as ' V8 Supercars ' in 1997.

" Rape of Nanking: Undeniable history in photographs " Chicago: Innovative Publishing Group, 1997.

In January 1997, the responsibility for the X Window System was transferred to The Open Group from the defunct X Consortium.

* Adelaide Steamship Company, Australian company active 1875 – 1997 ; now named Residual Assco Group and delisted

Global Crossing was founded by Gary Winnick, Abbott L. Brown, David L. Lee, and Barry Porter in 1997 through Pacific Capital Group, Winnick's personal venture group, which had experienced mixed results in its twelve-year history.

It comprises the RPG / MMO Group within Electronic Arts, with Muzyka, EA Senior VP and the Group General Manager and Zeschuk EA VP and Group Creative Officer of the BioWare Group ; co-founder Doctor Yip left in early 1997 to return to medicine.