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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Logos who wrote (6519)	5/5/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

That's not right, MSFT owns 90% of the PC OS market. they have less than 30% share of the midrange market (dominated by UNIX) and NONE of the mainframe OS market (Dominated by MVS with much more than 90% share). MSFT also has almost no presence in the embedded systems market, although that's where CE is supposed to go. Don't believe all of this Scott / Barksdale hype, there are lots of other OS vendors making big money. MSFT only made it into the top 3 in OS revenue in the last year. This is much more like the DOJ telling Honda that they can't sell tires or batteries with their cars while letting GM, Ford and Chrysler do whatever they want. The DOJ position is self-serving, it would be like saying that Sun has 100% of the Solaris market. Look at OS revenue for the industry, share by segment, or any of several other measures of market dominance. MSFT is king in their sector but it's a big world.