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By Elliot Markowitz
CONTENTS
  • Editor's Letter

  • Industry Hall Of Fame Introduction

  • Steve Ballmer General Patton Of Software

  • Paul Brainerd Desktop Publishing's Creator

  • Rod Canion The Entrepreneur Behind Compaq

  • Donald Estridge Artictect Of IBM's PC Strategy

  • Bill Gates Icon Of The Information Age

  • Andrew Grove The Driving Force Behind Intel

  • William Hewlett The Original Garage Genius

  • Steve Jobs The Man Behind The Macintosh

  • Mitch Kapor The Visionary Behind Lotus 1 - 2 - 3

  • Chip Lacy Distribution's Kingpin

  • Jeff McKeever When He Talks, The Industry Listens

  • Bill Millard The Father Of The Reseller Channel

  • Ray Noorda Solver Of The LAN Problem

  • Edward Raymund Distribution's Early Dynamo

  • Alan Shugart Pioneer Of The Disk-Drive Frontier

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    IMMORTALIZED IN HISTORY: The Computer Museum, Boston is co-sponsoring CRN's Industry Hall of Fame and will display plaques of the inductees.
    Welcome to CRN's Industry Hall of Fame. Inside the walls of this issue are great men. Great men with great ideas, determination, good timing and a little bit of luck.

    Walk in and meet visionaries, entrepreneurs, pioneers and industry revolutionaries. These individuals have changed the course of the world through their dreams, leadership and courage to take risks and execute their business plans.

    These men put their dreams into action, building the foundation for what we all know as the new age of information. Through their technologies, innovations and channel strategies, these 15 individuals changed the way businesses operate--from international Fortune 500 companies to small mom-and-pop organizations.

    These men gave birth to Silicon Valley and gave hope to every engineer with an idea or entrepreneur with a selling strategy.

    These men have changed the way we all work, live and communicate. The fruits of their labor have changed the way our children are educated and, as a result, the world will never be the same.

    So come in and read how a slow-talking Southerner named Rod Canion took on Big Blue iron, jump-started the world of mobile computing and made American business history.

    Listen closely and you can hear the fireworks explode as Bill Millard first hatches his plan to revolutionize the PC industry by creating a selling channel made up of franchisees that blanketed the nation as ComputerLand.

    Learn how a young immigrant named Andrew Grove, with two comrades, sowed the seeds to grow Intel--now the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world and one of the most powerful companies--against all the odds.

    Rise with Chip Lacy as he builds a distribution empire and feel the energy coming from the veins of Steve Ballmer, the General Patton of Software, as he motivates the Windows 1 team at Microsoft to get their product to market.

    They are all here and many more. They are immortalized for their ambition and accomplishments and their impact on us all.
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