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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17909)	3/5/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Respond to of 24154

Well, I'm glad someone else is getting to the crux of the issue here. Its not the browser that is important. There are any number of candidates that can do the job, some of them in the public domain. If OEM bundling (i.e., the distribution channel) is the key factor in acceptance then the product is a commodity. What Microsoft fears most of all is standardization and public interfaces. This is why they don't want to go along with Java, CORBA or any other initiative that would level the playing field. If you work in the IT domain though, standards are essential. One of the most maddening and costly problems today is the profusion of hardware (from routers, switches, network cards, video cards, processors, etc.), the never ending software upgrade cycle with its attendant incompatibilities and the market battle over the server side. All of which destroys any productivity gains you might have envisioned initially. Microsoft and Intel are probably the biggest benefactors of this cycle and non-IT business the biggest losers. Sooner or later the rest of the business world will wake up to the fact that the vaunted productivity gains haven't happened and cutting and pasting in 3D interactively on the Internet is still no substitute for creative thinking. At that point standards will be mandated before the IT industry sucks all the capital away from everyone else. A recent article on this and other phenomena can be found at exchange2000.com Thure