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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4865)	1/30/1998 3:15:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

[I stand by the statement that MSFT is creating the seeds of its own downfall by creating no incentives for INNOVATION with regard to their monopoly.] Then you would agree that the market will naturally displace MSFT with a more innovative vendor so government interference is not necessary.

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4865)	1/30/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: K. M. Strickler	Respond to of 74651

I worked for IBM from 1965 to 1968 and I do remember hardware and software coming the same source! In the case of the operating system, IBM told you what you got! This is NOT BURGER KING, and it's MY WAY OR THE HI-WAY! Ken

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (4865)	1/31/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hi Paul, >>. Borland is practically out of business --- something that happened the minute it chose to broaden its product offerings beyond a niche. << Kahn bit off more than he could chew. If they'd stuck with languages they would be in much better shape right now. I will tell anyone who listens that Borland's Delphi is the best windows-based development environment there is... RAD indeed. >>Same thing with Corel.<< Their apps sucked. >>All of those modem based communication products disappeared with winsock. The peer to peer networking companies got crushed with Win95.<< Was that bad for the customer? I like the fact that DUN is integrated into the OS instead of having to load some crappy Trumpet winsock. >>I can't point to a single thing MSFT innovated beyond the addition of sound to the PC OS.<< Didn't they write NT from the ground up? Do you think they're just spinning wheels in their research labs? They've got some great minds at work there. FWIW Andy