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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14478)	11/25/1997 7:24:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>"the often-tragic failure of other races to resist expansion by other peoples was largely a matter of bad luck." That's a pretty chilling quote. How did Gates use it in context? And does this mean we need to do something about all those damn Canadians, French, and Belgians crossing the border seemingly at will?! To the Barricades! Chaz

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14478)	11/26/1997 11:26:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Netscape's brave new enterprise world news.com When is the world's most famous browser company not a browser company? Just ask Netscape Communications (NSCP) chief executive Jim Barksdale, who has presided over his company's move toward being a business solutions company. Of course, Netscape still leads rival Microsoft (MSFT) in browser share, but that lead is in danger of disappearing as Microsoft ships its Windows operating system with a built-in Internet Explorer. Furthermore, only 18 percent of Netscape's fourth-quarter revenue was due to browser sales, Barksdale told a conference audience last week. Instead, an ever-increasing portion of the company's revenue comes from server software and selling the expertise to integrate that software into the existing systems of large businesses. And that's fine, of course. Still, I'm going to get very depressed if this leaves me needing to run the Roach Motel California of browsers. I'm going to have to go check out some of the small, fast browsers that were mentioned here the last couple of weeks. Especially important is the battle with Microsoft over Java, Giga's Machevsky said. "Java is the Pork Chop Hill..., since that's where a lot of enterprise application efforts are moving," he said. "If there's a fragmentation of that market in terms of standards, it'll be harder to implement Java enterprise apps." Well, if Microsoft wins that battle, then the world deserves to be left to the mercy of Bill's monopolistic death grip. Just what the world needs, portable bytecodes tightly bound to native OS calls in the Windows Roach Motel. You may as well put my crushed egghead skull at the bottom of the pile. Of course, Netscape has plenty of allies in that battle against Microsoft. The ilk go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah... Chers, Dan.