That is the vaseball metaphor.
How Acer Is Burning Its PC Rivals; Under CEO Gianfranco Lanci, the Taiwan
company is using cutthroat pricing to gain on Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
BusinessWeek, Apr. 7, 2009. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_16/b4127000406657.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_global+business
My comment: Mr. Gianfranco Lanci is now CEO! He was president, then co-CEO
and now CEO. An Italian who lives in Taiwan. Taiwan has evolved into a merit
society, like US.