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To: John Donahoe who wrote (16907)	1/31/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: Dermot Burke	Respond to of 24154

No.It's a Networked World.America Online will buy Netscape and with it's massive distributive might, turn on the Microsoft Network and make Bill look mortal.

To: John Donahoe who wrote (16907)	1/31/1998 4:40:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Check your own reality John. Left out of the analysis is IBM, which makes the whole exercise a little suspect. Anyway, this was not exactly a celebratory column. As in the last line: It seems that Sun will be the only holdout, the one company standing between Wintel and the notion of cross-platform computing. Scary, isn't it? As Microphobe in chief, I'd say it's scary indeed. Every computer in the world running the same bloated middleware OS- 27million lines, make that terminally obese- there's a lot of problems with that. Of course, since there's no ship date attached to NT5, the OS for the next millenium, I'd say it'll be a while before the fat lady sings. That won't prevent those who think arrogance is a good substitute for knowledge from crowing about the "inevitable" outcome. You get your reality from Microsoft PR, that's fine, but a mighty slippery reality indeed you're dealing with. Resistance may be futile; resistance must be offered. Cheers, Dan.