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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (3319)	11/22/1996 10:39:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	of 24154

You think about it, Reg, and spare us the spreadsheet experience. Microsoft has a continuing income stream from a bunch of well established products; Netscape is not (yet) in that position. Microsoft, of course, is doing its very best to make sure that Netscape never gets into that position. Microsoft gets its cut from every PC sold, and apparently worked quite hard to cut Netscape off at the knees there. Similary, in the ISP business, Netscape had an income stream that Microsoft destroyed by giving things away, or more accurately, paying the ISP's to take their product. If you count add in all the promotional expenses in strongarming people into using IE/IIS, there's a lot of money being poured into stuff that is generating essentially no direct revenue. It is totally bogus to compare Microsoft as a whole to Netscape. In the specific area of Internet/Web software, what does the revenue per employee look like at Microsoft? We know what it looks like at Netscape. And you don't have to tell me again that nothing in life is free. There is obviously massive cross subsidization going on here. I won't bring up the legal questions about this if you don't. Cheers, Dan.

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