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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (23668)	11/24/1999 3:59:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

If you look carefully at the discussion on the potential role of 'middleware' on breaking the Microsoft monopoly, you'll see how Microsoft attempted to preserve it's monopoly through its actions. Middleware was far more dangerous to Microsoft than a competing operating system because it could exist on top of Microsoft's operating system rather than in place of it. Thus, the consumer could use Windows and all his or her applications, and additionalyuse the middleware applications (HTML/Java/Javascript). As more and more applications moved to middleware, the consumer would require less from the underlying OS. Notice that the consumer could change applications gradually, rather than all at once should the consumer simply just by a different OS like Linux. This potential for gradual change lowers the applications barrier, endangering the monopoly.