Israelis turn military skills into software export boom
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The software industry in Israel is enjoying a boom derived from military expertise, a reservoir of programmers and computer engineers. Driving the trend are 700,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Israelis returning from the US. Software exports from Israel reached a total of $198 million in 1994, $287 million in 1995 and $413 million in 1996. Gil Shwed worked on linking computer networks with different security clearance levels in the army and is now the president of the world's market leader in firewall software, Check Point Software Technologies. Sharon Carmel and two friends started Geo-Interactive Media Group, using the experience that they gained from a high-technology unit of the army. Geo-Interactive fetched $19.2 million in IPO in 1996 and its sale in 1996 amounted to $1.4 million. The company's major product, Emblaze Creator, enables users to view and hear in real time interactive multimedia sent over the Internet.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1997
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A showdown on messaging may unite Web users
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Microsoft and America Online have been engaged in a game of cat and mouse, Microsoft trying to tie its MSN instant messaging service to AOL's Instant Messenger service. Instant messaging tells users if friends are logged on to the Web and allows them to chat directly with each other using text. Microsoft had found a way via software (and information from an AOL Web page) to make this connection. AOL has since changed its messaging protocols 6 times. In this case, Microsoft is the business with the smaller market share calling for open access to AOL's 80 million users. An open messaging standard agreement seems likely between AOL and Microsoft, Yahoo and Prodigy Communications.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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I.B.M. invests in campaign to promote its software
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With a major advertising and marketing campaign about to begin, International Business Machines Corp. hopes to change public perception about the company and its software. Up until now, few people were aware that IBM is the second-largest software maker, after Microsoft Corp., with $11.9 billion in sales for 1998, $11.2 billion in 1997 and $12.7 billion in 1995 and an expected 10% rise in 1999 over last year's sales. The sales increase marks IBM's strategy of marketing software that will run on major operating systems like Windows NT, Linux and Java in addition to its growth in its other two major businesses: services and technology sales to other companies.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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