The recommendation reflects a sense of urgency within Japan that this nation, normally a technology powerhouse, is lagging behind the United States and Europe in computer networks, on-line information services and other new telecommunications industries.

Mr. Messier, determined to build a media and technology powerhouse, embarked on a series of acquisitions that resulted in a debt load that nearly bankrupted the company.

By transforming his family-owned vegetable oil business into a global technology powerhouse, Mr. Premji has become the country's richest citizen, with a net worth hovering around $8 billion.

The communications and technology powerhouses intend to urge the Federal Communications Commission to waive many of the rules requiring the local phone giants to give would-be competitors access to all parts of their networks.

But the market is perceived to be so attractive that many competitors are emerging, including technology powerhouses like Motorola, Corning and Agilent Technologies, the spinoff from the Hewlett-Packard Company.

But few outside of Wall Street and corporate data centers are familiar with this emerging technology powerhouse.

Despite I.B.M.'s current problems, the company is still respected as a technology powerhouse.

It went from failing state in 1960 to technology powerhouse in 2012.

That's a refreshingly open-minded attitude from the leader of a global technology powerhouse.

A link with Silicon Graphics would also transform Compaq from a maker of high-quality clones of the International Business Machines Corporation's personal computers into a technology powerhouse.