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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (14274)11/19/1997 4:25:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton  Read Replies (4) of 24154
 
VBA is innovative. I don;t see any other Web servers with crash protection. I could probably go on, but why should I? Like I stated to Charles, MSFT is a FOR PROFIT company. Therefore they want to make money. Companies DO NOT get paid for making innovations. Do you want proof? Let us examine your list.

Virtual Memory Wang - innovated itself right out of the number spot in its category by missing the paradigm shift of its industry.

ISAM IBM - did the same thing as Wang, too busy innovating and not enough time paying attention.

PC networking Novell - Uh Huh, from a monoploy to an also ran in less than two years. Too bad they can't sell as well as they innovate.

PC spreadsheets Visicalc (I think) - YOu have to think about it because while they were busy making the spreadsheet, the reat of the industry was busy SELLING improved copies of the spreadsheet.

Now compare these companies to MSFT. It appears to me that the company that discovers these technologies are inventive, but they are far from innovative if they can not improve on them and make money form them. Making money is the reason why the for profit companies invent the technology in the first place. If anything, the companies that improve on the technology to the point of capturign dominant market share and profiting are the truly inovative ones.

As a subtle reminder, the inventors of a technology are rarely the ones that reap the financial benefits from it. This is due to allocation of resources. Those that start from where the inventor left off are in a far better position to turn that invention into a stream of cashflows. Hence Visicalc led to 1-2-3 which led to Excel.

Let us not forget "PC Windowing Apple" - this is not true, for they got the idea from someone else, but look at where Apple is any way. They failed to commoditize their product, hence had market share snatched away.
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