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To: tekboy who wrote (36673)	12/15/2000 12:36:20 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Tek, Re: Ferguson's "High Stakes, No Prisoners", Another one for the shopping cart. Going back to your 12/31/99 post, please allow me to quote from Ferguson (presumably bracketed analogies are yours). "By 1992, I had figured out what was going on. The key prize in high technology is proprietary control of an industry standard...I also noticed that standards and systems architectures played a major role in defining the structure of the industry and the profitability of the various niches within it. There were architectural platform leaders, like Microsoft or Intel [i.e., gorillas]; imitators or clones, such as AMD [i.e., monkeys]; [and] architectural losers, such as Apple [i.e., chimps]..." (p. 22) Thanks, - Eric -