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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (14734)	12/10/1997 4:28:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

[Microsoft hasn't even dominated the Enterprise market and already they are testing the waters of price-gouging;] This is hilarious. Now we have people suggesting MSFT is abusing it's monopoly power in markets in which it has no monopoly. They're simply raising their prices nearer the levels of their competitors because it's silly not to when customers will still see NT as a bargain. Yet somehow it's got to be MSFT who's doing the gouging, right? Why not look at the value offered? 5 years ago the power I have in my NT box today would have cost as much as a luxury car, and it runs all the office apps, email, browsers, games, reference tools, digital camera stuff, whatever I decide I want including my old stuff from years ago. My kids run this system easily. That's tremendous value and MSFT will continue to win as long as it keeps up this pace. Unix has earned it's place in history as a great system, and maybe it's not done yet, but value is not being added to it at the rate of NT and so, of course, it is being displaced.