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To: Jay Rommel who wrote (15437)	5/5/1998 5:50:00 PM
From: joe	Respond to of 45548

Jay, Sorry, to repost what you had posted before. >>"The new cry must be simpler, more intuitive, and more inexpensive to own," he said. Duhhhh??? What is he is going to suggest next, MSFT should compete fairly???<< I think that in the area of the PalmPilot and networking equipment in general, there is no competition between COMS and MICROSOFT (& INTEL). To me, if anything, it's a counter argument against CSCO. Cisco's products are expensive, and COMS will eventually make alot of the same things for the average size business. Eventually, lots of the higher end equipment will be cheap and easier to use. In fact, this may be an important requirement for the networking sector to grow. As it is now, it seems like every company department has to have a crew of network administrators to constantly hand-hold the increasingly complex company network. SERVICE & USER FRIENDLYNESS have to pervade. (Eventually, I plan on having a completely networked home, between all the 1/2 dozen of my computers. Distributed processing. I'll have to search for an application, though. <g>. As far as Microsoft goes, I think Eric B. could care less about them (unlike Sun, SGI, Netscape, HP, ... who listen to Gates's every word.) He's just simply making the point that there's no limit to the number of products coming out, and there's no utility in having standards for all the products that Eric B. invisions. Microsoft & Intel can try to put the field of networking all under their own umbrella, but there won't be much point to it. Probably, the journalist think that any computer related endeavor will eventually get eaten-up by MSFT or INTC as soon as it shows some competition. Eric B. is just responding to these type of questions..... Joe