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To: MR. PANAMA (I am a PLAYER) who wrote (27802)	2/4/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 53903

Hitachi, Partners Postpone Test Line For 1-Gigabit DRAMs TOKYO (Nikkei)-Hitachi Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. have agreed to postpone by one year construction of a test manufacture line for advanced 1 gigabit DRAM chips they plan to jointly develop, industry sources said. The agreement came with all three companies facing worsening earnings prospects amid a crumbling memory chip market. The three companies agreed last February to jointly develop the chips, hoping to start selling them in 2001. The plan called for spending 20 billion yen to build a test facility in Hitachi's Tokyo research center this spring and share development costs expected to reach at least 100 billion yen, involving about 300 engineers. But all three companies have seen their earnings hit by the decline in DRAM prices, forcing a delay in construction. The companies have already notified suppliers for the project. Hitachi and Mitsubishi officials stressed they intend to proceed at a later date despite the delay.

To: MR. PANAMA (I am a PLAYER) who wrote (27802)	2/4/1998 11:37:00 PM
From: Scotsman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 53903

If money was all that mattered, Gates would hope that the DOJ would break him up. It at least doubled Rockefellers net worth when Standard Oil was broken up since he received equal percentages of all the spin off companies, all of which continued to climb due to their dominance. I see MSFT as the Standard Oil of today,and I anticipate the same will occur. The similarities are outstanding. 1) Rockefeller's main drive was to standardize the oil industry so the kerosine or gasoline was the same in every city( and of course make some money doing it.) Gates wants to standardize the computer industry so all computers comunicate in every city( and make some money doing it.) 2) Rockefeller was one of the first to realize the power size gave a company due to margins of scale. He used this to break his competition by undercutting their price. Gates uses the same techniques to break his competition as he can make money on less margin due to his size. 3) Rockefeller would drive railroads to pay him a fee for ever barrel of his competitors oil they shipped, which was of course charged to that competitor. This,of couse, is called a kickback. Gates would drive the computer manufacturers to pay him a fee for every computer shipped whether it used Windows or not, which was of course charged to the competitor through higher retail prices. This is also a kickback, but a little more refined. 4)Rockefellers Standard Oil Corporation held over 95% of the oil in the USA. Gates holds 95% of the computers in the USA, if not worldwide. Since all of the above is similar, I have to think that the antitrust laws will kick in, especially when MSFT starts to dominate the other forms of communication, such as TV, Radio, Satillite, Cable, and Internet. If you look at the direction he has been expanding, thats where he is going. When he is split up it should easily push Gates though 150 billion. lickity split. sorry, didn't mean to get on a soapbox. He deserves every dollar he has. But I think he has crossed the line between competitive and preditory. Its too bad, he has some good products.