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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (15371)	12/22/1997 7:28:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

They are very strong arguments and not just suppositions. Have you ever worked for a medium-to-large size company? Familiar with issues of supporting various platforms, apps, etc? Including actual cost, IS support issues, TCO, etc? If you did, you would know that the arguments that I posted (and others) bear directly on the question of choice, and go to the heart of the whole case.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (15371)	12/22/1997 9:31:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>> So what are the reasons? Where is the argument? Those are just a couple of weak suppositions. Here's an excerpt from the article in the Economist economist.com making my point: The second theory looks at "network externalities". Purely by being so widely used, products such as Windows, with its customer base of 100m people, present a high barrier against competitors' entry. Any customer who wants to change to another product would need to spend a fortune retraining staff, replacing software and so on.