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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17014)2/3/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Larry Sullivan  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Hmmmmm....

Customers bought a system from IBM and included in the price was software, peripherals and maintenance. Customers generally liked it that way - an argument Microsoft makes today about bundling lots of different functions, including the Internet Explorer browser, into Microsoft's Windows operating system.

IBM sold you Hardware, software and service...Microsoft in general sells you...SOFTWARE and only software. For big service contracts and such it seems Microsoft is trying to get partners like DEC, Compaq (soon to be the same), HP, IBM (see there web site where they are thumping their chests about being the biggest NT development shop in the world, even bigger than Microsoft) to make some good money as well. I would argue that this makes Microsoft very different than IBM where IBM leased you a machine (maybe you bought) and there were Big Blue employees at your place of business running your computer system. IBM could keep any competitors software off the machines since IBM ran them. This is a very far cry from Microsoft adding browsing functionality to the OS. But I am not a legal expert and wouldn't ever claim to be one but common sense seems to bare this out.

Larry...
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