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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15994)	1/11/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft and TCI in Deal on Software for Cable TV nytimes.com This is the Times' story on yesterday's deal, by longtime net reporter John Markoff. It's a little mushy, as the whole TCI deal seems to be. Just as I thought there was going to be a clean divorce between Java and Microsoft, along comes John Malone to arrange a shotgun wedding. A couple choice quotes illustrate: Malone's goal, said several people familiar with the negotiations, has been to create a "layer cake" set of business deals in which no one vendor can secure monopoly control of the projected interactive cable industry. But ... However, Microsoft officials said that the arrangement with Tele-Communications would create a business that is similar in many ways to the personal computer industry, in which Microsoft's software is shipped with more than 90 percent of all new personal computers. So, who's Java is supposed to run on these things? Bill's best-of-breed, hemlock-laced cuppa? It's all so confusing, maybe the whole thing will turn out to be as entertaining as the courtroom saga. Cheers, Dan.