The move was considered a watershed announcement in an industry that has long considered Intel an ally of Microsoft, Apple's giant rival.
Some store owners, though, are ready to roll out the red carpet to a giant rival.
Not so easily this time did Smoke gain to his giant rival, and when he did he was unable to pass.
And big was not automatically bad: corporate giants needed giant rivals to feel challenged and checked.
American banks may be having difficulty competing with giant foreign rivals, but their difficulties have little to do with size or access to equity.
In fact, the original plan had to be modified to satisfy the thousands of small member firms that feared they would be outvoted by their giant rivals.
And can he do so without alienating the small brokerage firms, which may feel threatened if their giant rivals become the dominant investors in the new Nasdaq market?
Sales Target Set For a while, it looked as though Honda had both its giant rivals on the run.
With 80 million people, it has attracted no fewer than three giant rivals.
By comparison, the giant rivals of MDC almost always acquire total ownership of the agencies they buy.