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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: t2 who wrote (23786)	6/7/1999 7:48:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

t2k: I get a kick out of these articles: It appears that MSFT did not do a very good job of forcing IBM out of selling Lotus Dominoes/Notes. IBM could have used its own"superior" O/S2 and avoided the MSFT hold up.JFD Microsoft Corp (MSFT) MICROSOFT CORP used its monopoly power to try to pry IBM CORP away from its own software products, an IBM employee testified Monday, supporting the government's main antitrust charge against the software superpower. For IBM, that meant pressuring it to stop shipping computers with its own OS/2 operating system and a series of business programs that competed with Microsoft Office. "They repeatedly used the (computer maker) relationship to apply pressure," said Garry Norris, who was IBM's primary negotiator with Microsoft Corp. in the mid-1990s. Company memos and letters tendered in court also offered dramatic new insight into Microsoft's tactics. (Reuters 04:40 PM ET 06/07/99) For the full text story, see full story -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Corp (MSFT) MICROSOFT CORP edged out IBM and Novell as the leading 1Q vendor of groupware, or software that lets users work together over PC networks, International Data Corp. said Monday. According to IDC estimates, Microsoft's Exchange software took an early lead with 1.9 mln new users in the United States, the technology data and research company said. It was followed "very closely" by IBM CORP's Lotus Domino/Notes with 1.4 mln new users and NOVELL INC's GroupWise with 1 mln new users. (Reuters 03:17 PM ET 06/07/99) For the full text story, see full story