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Article: A new electronic Messiah.(Marc Andreessen)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 5, 1995
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ENGLISH cricket fans are forever greeting another Ian Botham; American Democrame worth winning. Bright young people with good ideas can make a fortune in software. Microsoft has created several thousand millionaires out of its employees and investors. Yet so far the next Mr Gates has irritatingly often been Mr Gates: every time a new software market appears, he grabs a healthy slice of it for himself.
That makes it telling that the latest pretender to the crown has popped up in an area in which Microsoft has been slow off the mark: the Internet. When most big software companies were dismissing the Internet as a niche world for bitheads and academics, a bumptious ...