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To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (13241)	5/9/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Phil (and Eric?), I thought I caught a quote the other day about the margins on the iMac. Could 23% be the right number? Mark

To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (13241)	5/9/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 213176

Hi Phil , MSFT's bravado while Gates sell shares - Rhapsody/NT OpenBase , which built the Sharper Image's premiere website with NeXT , is announcing a Rhapsody (DR2) version at WWDC . IBM had 200 DOJ consent decree lawyers on its back who are probably now focused on MSFT - INTC . MSFT is bluffing , standing on reply brief comments . The DOJ in March correctly invited MSFT to make its Win/98 argument to the injunction judge . MSFT ignored them and may have waived that issue . Gates is selling or has sold some MSFT shares and has to stand firm or it will look like "insider" selling . Our 20th century heros see the fire , run out the door 1st , call 911 and are then viewed on TV as heros . The ones who stay to fight the fire perish . Informix is a sad example . Importantly AAPL stands to win from MSFT's troubles AND BIG TIME with the WWDC taking center stage . OpenBase has one up on AAPL's (FMP) FileMaker Pro . To date FMP does not run on Rhapsody , whereas OpenBase does ; > ) " OpenBase today announced the availability of OpenBase 5.2 Relational Database Server for Rhapsody DR2, OpenStep and Windows NT. OpenBase 5.2 offers remote internet access and administration, replication services, 100% native JDBC access, MacOS clients and many other new features. " openbase.com Regards, Jim K.

To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (13241)	5/10/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

*OFF TOPIC* re: Win98/Anti-trust it is still seriously skeptical about Wintel's monopoly status. I think there's a couple of issues here. On one, I agree with you: like IBM before, Microsoft looks like a monopoly now, but won't be forever (hopefully). But the second issue is specific to Win98: Microsoft built this version of its solely to destroy Netscape Navigator/ Communicator. Consumers who have tried Win98 don't like the interface. It makes no sense to navigate your hard disk in HTML. MS isn't doing this because consumers want it, they're doing it to kill Netscape--and, in the process, become dominant in the new, cross-platform paradgim of the Internet. Once their browser became dominant, MS would introduce incompatible standards that make competition impossible, and would become as dominant of the Internet as it is of the desktop. The DOJ has to block Win98, for the good of all of us. rhet0ric