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To: Benny Baga who wrote (21611)	11/20/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) of 24154

Benny - Kempin is among the most rabid hard-a$$ of the senior executive staff - he's the one who put pressure on Vobis in Germany over DRDos, for example. But the idea of essentially leasing software instead of a perpetual license is hardly new - it was the standard way of doing business for most of the history of software, and is still the way nearly every high-end vendor does business. Sun, HP and IBM all do annual leasing of software rather than a revision-based perpetual license. Kempin is right in one area however - the big OEMs will push back hard if MSFT does not stay competitive on OS pricing. This is an area being hotly debated within MSFT and rumor is that Kempin is a minority of one in trying to hold price in a declining hardware cost market.

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