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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (22664)2/15/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
<< Robert Bork, once upon a time too conservative to get onto the Supreme Court, now has a modest proposal for helping the world cope with Microsoft: split the company into triplets -- three equal, cloned Microsofts. >>

It's still a proposal that ignores all of the realities of software development teams and marketing strategies, not to mention packaging, etc etc.

I think this is why Microsoft has recently reorganized with new divisions similar to those I proposed for the breakup.

With the new divisions in place and debugged as independent units by the time the trial winds around to the solutions phase, including team and personnel moves, it will be only natural for the court to break the company apart along the unit divisions already arrived at by the company last month.

That will do the least damage and preserve shareholder value the best. I think MSFT sees this. It will also be better for the country to have several new large viable software companies that are differentiated and ready to do business with anyone, including having the teams and resources ready to do Sun and Linux versions of their applications.

Cheers,
Chaz

BTW, the reason Bork didn't make it to the supreme court is that he sold out on the firing of Archibald Cox for Richard Nixon, doing something his superiors had resigned rather than do.
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