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To: Rashley who wrote (26983)3/25/1998 10:31:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 132070
 
RA, I am not exactly calling for a breakup of Microsoft. Basically, my comment was about the other cos stocks that are going up even though their prospects are not related to MSFT's success in any way.

My guess is that breaking up MSFT doesn't make sense. Treating them like pre-breakup AT&T does make sense. If they have the key OS and browser and networking software, then their prices should be regulated. If not, then they should have to pay huge damages to the cos. they copy and then crush, like Apple, Novell and Netscape and extra taxes to the citizens they victimize.
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To: Rashley who wrote (26983)3/26/1998 1:01:00 AM
From: Brian Moore  Respond to of 132070
 
<< if they are successful in the back end server dept. with NT, they will elbow the Unix vendors aside. >>

Yeah, and if they successfully improve the database they have that goes with NT, they will elbow Oracle, Informix and Sybase aside.