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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 478.29-1.8%Nov 20 3:59 PM EST
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To: KM who wrote (16779)2/23/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Punko  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
>> Call 'em Consumer Products, Enterprise (i.e., corporate) Products, Developer Products and Knowledge Workers' Needs.

This article raises an interesting possibility. Could Microsoft be setting the stage for its own breakup? Organizing into these 4 divisions would essentially perforate the company along these lines for a straightforward divestiture. The Enterprise, Developer, and Knowledge Worker divisions would address a great deal of the anti-competitive issues in front of the court, since NT (which presumably would belong to the Enterprise division) is far from a monopoly in the enterprise space. Developer and Knowledge Worker orgs would not have anything akin to a 'monopoly' platform.

This leaves the consumer group. There, Windows is still widely perceived as a monopoly platform, so continuing to allow development of apps by this division would not do anything to remedy that group's future efforts to 'extend the monopoly into other areas', which I'm supposing is one of the doj's objectives.

Another question is how assets (most notably that huge wad of cash) would be distributed among these possible baby bills. One option would be to appropriate these 10's of billions for Bill Clinton's legal defense fund, where he'll need every penny. (Don't laugh, he's gotten away with worse). But seriously, it would make sense to me for it to be divvied up in accordance with percentage of earnings derived from owned products.

Interesting...
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