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To: odd lot who wrote (329)	11/25/1997 11:26:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Ya I know, Damn, You take for free products that displace other companies, and then, damn, gradually, ms is the only supplier of software, and then, damn, the world is microsoft, then, damn, i have no choice but to buy microsoft whatever the premium is. remmebr hyping NT pricing? cheaper than unix...etc. Suddenly in mid 97, they jacked up prices 2-4 times or so. You see, the first couple of crack bags are cheap. once you're hooked, well, you're hooked and you don't care about the cost.

To: odd lot who wrote (329)	11/28/1997 4:26:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

The irony is that Microsoft's monopoly OS got that way as a result of a totally open hardware architecture and applications development platform. Now, it should not come as any surprise that applications are effectively restricted by the underlying capabilities of the OS and Microsoft is uniquely positioned to take advantage of that ceiling. Understandably, Microsoft is only interested in developing technology that keeps customers firmly tied to Windows. There's little doubt that the Internet protocols, database access protocols and industry standard languages are vastly, vastly superior to Microsoft's backroom efforts but they suffer from the fatal flaw of opening the door to alternative platforms. A proprietary solution is the best solution, as far as Microsoft is concerned. Well, that would be fine if their technology were not so badly designed and poorly implemented. That brittle foundation is what everybody else has to work from. Until now, there were no viable alternatives, unless you count more of the same as an alternative. The alternative is Java-based platforms running Java applications constructed from Java components using Java tools on a variety of existing platforms, including a Java OS. Let me be crystal clear here. I am not suggesting or predicting anything here. I am telling you what is about to happen. There is no vote. It happens now.