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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23374)	5/29/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 24154

I regard the Norris testimony - at least what I know of it from the press - as weak and factually wrong. For example he says CPQ was pressured by MSFT not to ship OS/2 and did not ship. In fact OS/2 is part of the CPQ "smartStart" installation system which allows customers to do a fully optimized and automated install. CPQ has consistently shipped a large volume of OS/2 and maintains a significant engineering group to maintain good support for OS/2 and the applications which run on it. CPQ's support of OS/2 has been consistent since OS/2 was first available. Likewise the arguments about pricing changes between Windows 3.1 and Windows95 seem a little strange. IBM had the best deal in the business on MSFT products before the launch of Windows95. Like everyone else, they had to negotiate a new contract for Win95, and like everyone else they paid more than they had in the past. In IBM's case, they went from a very good deal to the same deal as everyone else. IBM is really complaining because they no longer got the "special treatment" they had gotten in the past. I am a little surprised that the DOJ would use this tactic - it seems like it has potential to backfire.

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