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To: damniseedemons who wrote (17917)	3/6/1998 8:10:00 AM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal, your answer is naive. How do you know that customers are not willing to pay for Netscape? A buy decision on a product inside a large institution is not a simplistic price bakeoff. There are any number of costs associated with choosing one piece of software over another. E.g., the ability to interoperate with other legacy software, portability across multiple platforms, cost of the upgrade path, degree of "lock in", the service levels offered by the vendor, the companies internal IT strategy etc. I guess you missed that part of the testimony where M. Dell said that large corporate customers demand the inclusion of Netscape. Thure