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Battle Lines Drawn (10/11/97)
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The MacOS Rumors folks have opened up the Wacko File again, and it reveals preparations of an Apple civil war of epic proportions. If all of this pans out, you'll have a story to tell your grandkids. Ready? Hold on tight...

On one side, you have the saber-rattling Larry Ellison of Oracle, who recently joined the Apple board of directors. It's no secret that he is basically best friends with Steve Jobs. Many of us were a little wary when Larry joined the board; after all, remember his "trial balloon" several months ago, in which he floated the idea of an Apple buyout? Well, his current move is the next step in an Apple takeover plan... Rumors reports that he has persuaded Steve to propose an Apple/Oracle merger at the next board meeting.

And yet this move may come too late, because on the other side, you have the seemingly-Apple-friendly cloner UMAX (a black hat in disguise?), teaming up with Motorola's money in preparation for a hostile takeover. Barbarians at the gate!

Rumors reports that this game of Capture-the-Flag is a race to the top. If Apple merges with Oracle before UMAX can make the takeover bid, the resulting company would be too large for UMAX to buy. But the clock is ticking...

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/11/97 episode:

October 11, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 74: A Less Crabby Crabb (10/11/97)   In an article that we at AtAT find uncharacteristically charitable, Don Crabb puts forth the reasons why he thinks Steve Jobs would be the best CEO for Apple after all. We wouldn't expect Don to be so supportive of the possibility, even though his reasoning essentially amounts to the fact that no one but Jobs is crazy enough to pull off the miracle that would be Apple's survival...

  • 75: Devil Went To Redmond (10/11/97)   The Macintosh Conspiracy had an Anti-Microsoft day today, and we've got to thank them for pointing us to this nifty story on scripting.com. We're always up for another "Bill Gates Meets Satan" action...

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