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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17888)	3/5/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: micromike	Respond to of 24154

VC's favor the path of least resistance because they want to make money. Good point, they take the path of least resistance and since they know how MS preditory practices work they shy away from any company that plans to compete head to head with MS. They know for a fact that the better product can't win in a monopoly and once again the consumer gets the shaft. You need a example take Netscape and this total putz Mike Dell. He said he supplies what the customers demand. Somebody said to counter the monopoly theory that Netscape has the bigger market share so that would indicate to me that consumers would want Netscape more often than IE. His own employee at the customer order desk even said he much preferred Netsape but they can't supply it with its computers. Then you get a guy like Sal who can't read between the lines when Dell only sells IE. Does Sal actually think Dell would admit that there is something going on behind closed doors and since MS has a monopoly they can control Dell. Since we are talking about the monopoly and how it controls all the players in the game. Bills other weapon to control the ISV is upgrades. If they cross him don't expect to get any upgrade info on the next release which he always says is greater and better but in actually fact is more unruly and more unstable. Once again the consumer gets the shaft. Mike