At one point, he had investments in more than 100 internet ventures including eTrade, Yahoo and ZD Net.

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Terry Nulty, CEO of ZDU, Ziff-Davis (ZD) ' online education unit, had Rosenthal's help building ZDU before Rosenthal joined Kaplan.

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About 70 percent of ZDNet's Internet content, including ZD Network News and ZDNet Product Reviews, was unreachable to users for two hours during the attack on its ZDNet.com address.

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While the courtroom laughter was played high in most accounts, with News.com reporting that even Microsoft's lawyers were chuckling at the videotaped cat-and-mouse game, ZD's court story surprisingly recounted Gates's testimony without recounting the apparent courtroom disbelief.

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Rupert Goodwins, editor of IT publication ZD Net, said that while Linux remained too complex for most home users, its growing foothold in the workplace would help it gain widespread popularity as soon as more user-friendly versions were developed.

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