They are about to touch off a highly public war between two of the world's most powerful software companies - a fight that will determine whose products channel and regulate the rivers of information that will flow through networked computers. Predicts Steve Jobs, co- founder of Apple Computer: ''What personal computers were to the Eighties, networking will be to the Nineties.'' Networks - whereby specialized software, cables, and other hardware devices are used to allow even previously incompatible computers to talk to one another - are changing the entire computer industry profoundly. The cables are the desktop's link to astonishingly fast growing networks that are revolutionizing how work gets done. Where they go and what they connect to have become enormously important. (FORTUNE Magazine) – TRAILING OUT the back of nearly half the desktop computers at FORTUNE 500 companies these days are thin round cables that snake off into floors or walls and disappear.
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