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To: Dinesh who wrote (17987)	2/14/2000 8:06:00 PM
From: Dinesh	Respond to of 54805

OT: interesting interview re denial of service attacks A programmer known only as "Mixter," who says he resides in Germany, has not been publicly accused in any of the cases and denies any responsibility for the "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attacks. Mixter is part of a small group of underground programmers who say they create assault technologies that can be used in testing to improve Internet security.... abcnews.go.com

To: Dinesh who wrote (17987)	2/14/2000 10:59:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

Dinesh, Isn't a domineering market share a precondition for being a gorilla ? Yes. If so, a 19% to 10% share advantage does not seem to indicate a domineering status. Esp. if 60% is classified as "others". Any time a company has twice the market share as its largest competitor, that is a dominant share. In the case of applications technologies which is the case of Siebel's, a gorilla's market share is typically 20% to 30%. With regard to the 60% shared by all the others, there are literally hundreds of companies dividing that 60% share. --MIke Buckley