Innflytelsesrike CNN Money lagde nylig en liste over ti IT-personer som ifølge de ikke er så veldig viktige. Der finner du blant annet Microsofts sjef Steve Ballmer med Linux-skaperen Linus Torvalds.
Største overraskelsen er dog Sonys Ken Kutaragi (Playstations pappa) som har gått fra å være en av spillbransjens mest innflytelsesrike personer til en som ingen lengre tar på allvor etter alt tomt snakk om Playstation 3.
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Remember the Betamax debacle? Sony seems to have forgotten all about it. Under Kutaragi, who is the power behind Sony's PlayStation videogame consoles, the company is launching another format war with its Blu-Ray high-definition videodisc, the successor to the venerable DVD. Unfortunately, the PlayStation 3, which was supposed to put Blu-Ray into millions of living rooms, is months late and hundreds of dollars more expensive than competing consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo - largely because it includes one-of-a-kind technologies like Blu-Ray. The delays and cost overruns are likely to make both the PS3 and Blu-Ray nonstarters.
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