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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (7988)	3/3/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: High-Tech East	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

'Watched C-SPAN coverage all morning. My observations. 1) Gates has done all right for himself. 2) Scotty has handled himself extremely well; he has added to Sun's positive image and helped add to shareholder value. 3) Jim Barksdale has been good. 4) Donald Dell has been a disaster for Microsoft. I bet he wishes that he never left Texas. At least two of the senators on the committee had their assistants call Dell to pretend to order a PC with a Netscape Browser, which of course was not available. That led to some comments and questions around the issue "that if Netscape has more than 50% market share, why wouldn't it be in the customer's interest and therefore Dell's to also offer Netscape as a standard browser offering." Dell, not able to speak the truth, fumbled it pretty badly, which was very easy to do. FUNNIEST MOMENT (To me, although neither the audience or any of the senators seemed to get it) BILL TO SCOTTY (sitting two feet away): Why, of course we have competition at the desktop OS level. Sun wants to totally replace Windows on the desktop with the thin client and Java. SCOTTY TO BILL: I never said totally ..... silence BILL: silence Ken Wilson