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

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (24253)	6/16/1999 7:37:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

AOL's epic aim: to slay Microsoft Trial documents detail motivation behind AOL-Netscape-Sun deal - to develop a dominant computing platform ... Or, as AOL vice president of technology and former Netscape vice president Marc Andreessen once wrote in a more earthy e-mail: "To kick the shit out of the Beast in Redmond" ... msnbc.com ---------- Isn't one of the issue that Microsofts "dominant computing platform" constitutes a monopoly?

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (24253)	6/16/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

At one point, Boies said Eubanks, then at Symantec, asked if Eubanks had ever been afraid that Microsoft would step on them. "That is absolutely not true," Eubanks shouted. Boies then pulled up a published quote from Eubanks from 1993, when he said "We look to segments where we can be out from under their feet." Interesting, but in 1993, did MSFT have that much control in operating systems? I don't believe they were close to monopoly back then--so that email should not mean much. I just hope the MSFT lawyers make that point.