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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: BirdDog who wrote (50101)1/26/2002 11:34:35 PM
From: Mike Buckley  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
BirdDog,

If AOL can provide support for another OS. Then AOL has more power to fight the Gorilla who is trying to dominate them, and every other creature in the jungle.

In my mind, there's a big difference between offering a competing OS and offering support for a competing OS. It may be obvious to you that support for an OS gives them substantially more power, but it's not obvious to me.

Since you're "actually a little surprised at me" and "the answer is rather obvious" to you, please give me some evidence of any time in the history of technology in which offering support of a technology, whether proprietary or not, has proved to wield demonstrable power over a Gorilla. I'm not a technology history buff and I'm open minded, but until you or someone provides some fairly significant examples in which that strategy has worked in the past, I don't see it being especially effective in the future.

--Mike Buckley
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