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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (21197)11/9/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
I have always claimed that NSCP should have never tried to
charge for the client. Server sales and the sale of advanced server side apps (maybe even
rudimentary SAP style applications) should have been thier focus for revenue. They would have
done better raising the money as a secondary offering or private placement than trying to skim it
off of the top of the browser market. It is this single factor that tipped the scales in MSFT's
favor.

While I agree that the browser should have always been offered for free, I do not share your view that this is what tipped the scales in MSFT's favor. After all, most consumers got the browser for free anyways, downloading it from our site, while corporate customers that wanted it for free got the costs shifted to the servers in order to accommodate them. And as for the computer OEMs, MSFT's agreements would have pushed NSCP off anyways. For them it was not a cost issue, but rather a "curry favor with MSFT or else" offer.
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