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To: micromike who wrote (1773)3/13/1997 3:43:00 PM
From: micromike   of 2329
 
This is a interesting article about MS tactics .Maybe somebody is going to wake up to MS and hit them with antitrust suit that will stick this time.

Absolute power
infoworld.com

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely." They knew it 200 years
ago in France. Why don't people get it now? Software
developers, in the current industry atmosphere, are nearly
guaranteed to be penalized for their success. That is, if they
develop a successful product, Microsoft will notice. Microsoft
will then make an offer to cross-license the company's
technology at a "bargain basement" price. If the company
decides that it does not wish to sell out at such a low price,
Microsoft simply writes its own package and issues a press
release, and that small software company is history.

Now a Java article

Digital's Claflin: Get big by
being a leader
infoworld.com

InfoWorld: What do think of the Java phenomenon?

Claflin: I have said Java is already the winner. It will be the de facto
Internet application development programming language. We have yet
to fully integrate it in our Unix software, and we will integrate it into
VMS. It's been already ported to Alpha NT by Microsoft. One of
the changes that happened over the course of the year as we took our
PC strategy forward, we said we're going to target NT.

Go Java Go
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