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The top 20 companies

'97 rev. rank	'96 rev. rank	Comp.	'97 rev. in mill.	96-97 ch.	92-97 CA GR	'97 profits in mill.	96-97 ch.	92-97 CA GR	Profit rank	Mkt. Cap in mill.	# of emp.	96-97 ch	92-97 CA GR	R&D % rev in 96	R&D % in 97	Chair	CEO	Pres.	What it does	Notes
1	1	IBM	78,508	3%	4%	6,093.00	12%		2	99,200				6%	6%	Louis V. Gerstner Jr.	Louis V. Gerstner Jr.	Ned C Lautenbach	Computer and network products and services
2	2	AT&T	51,319	2%		4,638.00	-21%		3	107,100						C. Michael Armstrong	C. Michael Armstrong	John D. Zeglis	Long distance telecom, computer and network products and services
3	3	Hewlett- Packard	42,895	12%	21%	3,119.00	21%	42%	6	64,900	121,900	9%	6%	7%	7%	Lewis E. Platt	Lewis E. Platt	Lewis E. Platt	Products/services for measurement/ computing/ communications
4	4	Bell Atlantic	30,194	4%		2,454.90	-22%		8	81,200	141,000					Raymond W. Smith	Raymond W. Smith	Ivan G. Seidenberg	Telecommunications including wireless/ directory/ entertainment/information services
5	5	Motorola	29,800	7%	18%	1,180.00	2%	15%	13	32,300	150,000	8%	7%	9%	9%	Gary Tooker	Christopher Galvin	Robert Growney	Wireless communications, semiconductors, cellular phones, 2-way radio, pagers and space electronics
6	7	Lucent	26,360	13%		541			22	78,200	129,500	7%		11%	11%	Henry B. Schacht	Richard A. McGinn	Richard A. McGinn	Public and private networks, communications, data networking, business telephone systems	Spinoff/ AT&T (1996)
7	9	Intel	25,070	20%	34%	6,945.00	35%	45%	1	123,900	64,000	32%	20%	9%	9%	Andrew S. Grove	Craig R. Barrett (5/20)	Craig R. Barrett	Semiconductors, PC, network, communications products
8	6	SBC	24,856	6%		1,474.00	-55%		11	80,700	116,000					Edward E. Whitacre Jr.	Edward E. Whitacre Jr.		Local, long distance,cellular telephone services
9	10	Compaq	24,584	23%	43%	1,855.00	41%	54%	10	35,300				3%	3%	Benjamin M. Rosen	Eckhard Pfeiffer	Eckhard Pfeiffer	Servers, desktops, networking products, home PCs, notebooks
10	8	GTE	23,260	9%	4%	2,794.00	0%	29%	7	56,800	114,000		-2%	1%	1%	Charles R. Lee	Charles R. Lee	Kent B. Foster	Telecomm.
11	11	BellSouth	20,561	8%	6%	3,261.00	14%	15%	5	63,900	81,241	0%					Duane Ackerman	Duane Ackerman	Local tel., long-distance access, wireless, directory adv., video/info. serv.
12	12	MCI	19,653	6%	13%	2	-99%	-68%	102	27,800						Bert C. Roberts, Jr.	Bernard J. Ebbers	Bernard J. Ebbers	Long-distance, global telecom & information services	Merger/WorldCom = MCI WorldCom (2H98)
13	13	Ameritech	15,998	7%		2,296.00	8%		9	53,100	74,000	12%				Richard C. Notebaert	Richard C. Notebaert		Local/long-distance telecom, video communication, online svcs.
14	17	Northern Telecom	15,449	20%	13%	829	33%	9%	17	32,600	73,000			14%	14%	Donald J. Schuenke	John A. Roth	John A. Roth	Switching/fiber optic transmission, hybrid fiber-coax products/applications, business communications, cryptography , multimedia conferencing systems	Canadian company
15	15	EDS	15,236	6%	13%	730.6	69%	3%	20	24,700	100,000					Lester M. Alberthal Jr.	Lester M. Alberthal Jr.	Jeffrey M. Heller	Computer/ communications technologies provider
16	16	Sprint	14,820	6%	8%	953	-19%		16	25,300						William T. Esrey	William T. Esrey	Ronald T. LeMay	Global voice, data and video services and related products
17	14	Digital	13,047	-10%	-1%	140.9			38	7,040	54,900	-7%	-13%	7%	8%	Robert B. Palmer	Robert B. Palmer	Robert B. Palmer	Computer and network products and services	Subsidiary, Compaq Computer (1/98)
18	20	Microsoft	11,358	31%	33%	3,454.00	57%	37%	4	199,400	22,232	8%	13%	17%	17%	William H. Gates	William H. Gates		Internet browsers, operating systems, office suites,servers, server applications, CD-ROMS, keyboards, on-line publications
19	18	US WEST	10,300	2%		1,100.00	-8%		14	26,900	47,568	-1%				Richard D. McCormick	Solomon Trujllo	Solomon Trujllo	Telecomm.	Subsidiary, U S WEST (est. mid-1998)
20	21	Seagate	8,900	5%	25%	658	209%	60%	21	5,720	100,000	18%	20%		5%	Al Shugart	Al Shugart	Steve Luczo	Disk/tape drives, storage/network/info. mgmt. software