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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (3198)6/27/1999 10:34:00 AM
From: mauser96  Read Replies (2) of 54805
 
I stand corrected- but wasn't AT&T forced to do it as part of a settlement? Presumably they figured a judicial decision would be more draconian. MSFT attitude in the trial is a bit hard to figure out. Though I don't think they are a true monopoly (the computer OS market should be considered as a whole, and there are big parts like mainframes where they have no dominance)they have been acting like a monopoly in their section of that market, the trial has not gone well for them, the judge has already made up his mind. etc,etc. There are several outcomes of the MSFT-DOJ trial that would actually help stockholders in the long run as well as satisfy the government. It could result in several gorillas instead of just one if it is broken up.There are several other "good" solutions. A MSFT that had to depend more on better products and persuasion and less on brute force would have to listen to it's customers more closely, and would eventually produce better products and higher profits. So why is Bill Gates acting like he doesn't have to make some changes? I still think settlement is likely. The worse outcome would be some perpetual scrutiny by the DOJ with all of it's politically inspired motives , lack of tech knowledge, and resistance to change.
Speaking of Standard Oil, there is a recent biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. called "Titan" by Ron Chernow. I just started reading it, but so far it is an excellent book. In today's dollars Mr. R was far richer than Mr. G, and his companies totally dominated. It later turned out that many of the "competitors" that spoke most loudly against him were also secretly owned by him. Makes me wonder about some of the virulent anti MSFT people on SI <<gg>>
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