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Technology Stocks : MSFT -- Should the DOJ Break it up?
MSFT 517.03-0.2%9:30 AM EST
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (68)5/11/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar  Read Replies (1) of 144
 
Yooo Fred, Sounds like you are stepping into a hornet's nest...again.

Anyway, back from the land of the oracle, and poking around. Noticed you qualified the evil empire as having market power at the desktop. Sorry have to take issue there. The desktop is certainly correct as far as it goes, but the other place msft is establishing as its dominant domain, is the central computing center.

I've been seeing more and more CPQ Proliant servers showing up in these rooms replacing older and typically larger monolithic servers with organized hordes of these WinNT modules. Not to mention their acquisition of DEC and the Alpha 800 servers that started showing up there recently too.

Looks like a pretty clean sweep to me, throwing in the laptop crowd for good measure. If it looks like a monopoly and feels like a monopoly and smells like a monopoly, good thing you didn't step in it.

By the way, not that I'm interested, but are there any good reasons to convert from Win95 to Win98 ? I'd like about 3 good ones as to why I should be bothered by this disrupting event. Just ignorant but curious that's all. (For the msft geeks - Being a beta tester doesn't qualify as good, sorry).
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