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To: Joel Sternberg who wrote (1795)	2/21/1997 11:49:00 AM
From: Harry Larson	of 13594

>Does anyone know how seamlessly Compuserve's network would fit with >MSN or some other large web-based competitor. In 1995 CSRV re-did its entire system from and ancient DEC PDP platform to becoming the first major customer of Win NT. CSi now runs on over 200 NT servers. In 1996 CSRV became first customer of MSFT's then code-named `Normandy' -- Internet server software. As part of deal CSRV got tons of free support AND the source code. However, MSFT has made clear that it isn't partial to being in the basic transport business (i.e. CSRV Network Services). But, intriguing is thought of MSN/MSFT content and marketing partnerships -- especially abroad. The huge complementary marketing clout of each in foreign markets could rally hurt AOL's efforts there -- where CSRV already has commanding lead. OTOH, MSFT did leave CSRV as main wordlwide site of MSFT online support, to go to web. But MSFT really had no choice.

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