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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (20170)4/9/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley   of 74651
 
[A consortium of companies, led by IBM (I believe), is trying
to find ways to standardize Unix]

...and has been trying since the 1980's. Trouble is, the members of this consortium are competitors who are also looking for ways to differentiate their products from the other guys. So far, the goals have proven mutually exclusive and the exercise has produced little customer benefit.
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