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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (14226)	11/18/1997 2:45:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Yeah, right Alan, NT's success is totally because of the usual Microsoft superiority in all things technical and has nothing to do with the installed Windows base. How many months of shipment of the original IBM PC did it take for that to outnumber all Unix systems? One? Probably less. Oh, and people say NT development actually started within DEC in 1987. Microsoft has used the mass market well, no doubt, but there was also this thing with IBM and antitrust. Oh, I forget, that was all Brilliant Microsoft Management versus the dolts again. History through Bill colored glasses. Something we should all get used to. Cheers, Dan.

To: Alan Buckley who wrote (14226)	11/23/1997 2:17:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

No, it looks like you don't understand the economics of the industry. It was not the UNIX OS vendors that set the prices for the applications. Most of the applications were developed by other companies. And it was a chicken-and-egg situation in terms of lowering prices. No UNIX version of Borland emerged. For the most part, it was not MSFT that caused PC software prices to drop but Borland with their cheap compilers and tools. Then later, Borland's competition in the Office Suite area that dropped prices there Even later on, the challenge came from Corel. As for NOVL, they simply missed the boat. I suspect that they got fat, happy, and lazy with their success.