re This must be what scares Microsoft most -- letting the consumer make the real choice.
It doesn't matter anymore, Norm. Nobody using Win98 will need Netscape's browser.
Maybe NSCP execs will eventually realize that perhaps there was more to software development than they first thought. After all Norm, programming isn't rocket science - but to successfully develop, market and maintain software on a for-profit basis, it takes a whole lot of qualified, bright, energetic, creative and happy people who enjoy working on a winning team -- seems like Microsoft has been able to provide and sustain that environment.
Microsoft has been in the biz for a whole lot more years than those kids at NSCP, and they know their way around the block.
Apparently NSCP execs thought that all they had to do was write a program, relocate to Silicon Valley, CA (home of Cisco, HP, Intel, etc.), take their company public, and they were forever golden.
Redmond, WA says, "not so fast boys, it's not that easy."
Cheers,
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