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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DaYooper who wrote (7103)	9/27/1999 5:58:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

The real.com basis for RNWK's gorilla stature is that Real Networks provides open platform media streaming while MSFT, true to form, streams only on MSFT platform servers. DaYooper, you obviously have some insight into the positioning of RNWK and its product(s). But let us be wary of calling or implying that RNWK has a "gorilla stature". I do not believe a convincing argument has been made that RNWK has achieved or is even a candidate to achieve Gorlladom. If you are willing, I hope you will review the criteria for Gorilla-ness in TFM and test RNWK against those requirements.