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To: cfoe who wrote (39625)	9/3/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

>> Does the kind of negative sniping you are talking about remind you of another company years ago? MSFT? I share your wondering about this. Maybe it is jealousy? Maybe it is the sign of small minds at work? Maybe it's just another sign that Q is becoming a Gorilla, cfoent. In chapter 3 of the Gorilla Game, Geoffrey Moore comments on the coercive power of a Gorilla in the value chain: It is this form of power that causes every other company in the value chain to genuinely hate the gorilla. They don't hate the people, they hate the company, because it is feeding off their work to make its profits higher. And there is nothing, apparently, that anybody can do about it. We can expect increasing criticism of Q as it matures to full Gorilla power. Franq