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

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (8001)	5/26/1998 3:04:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

Look to market share, lack of short term and medium term alternatives. (in re strong monopoly characteristics] I'm not so sure that is the definition of a monopoly. We are talking OS software, not necessities of life such as electrical power, oil, or telephone service. Consumers don't need computers. Therefore they are not "harmed" with a dominant and popular OS. Ironically, the very computer users that the DOJ claims is being harmed, are the same computer users who are voting for their OS of choice by buying the Microsoft Windows OS. When you think about it, the DOJ and the State AGs are being incredibly arrogant and willfully wrong-headed with their assumptions that consumers are being "harmed". Clearly, as this case was from the beginning, it still is all about Netscape, and their inability to maintain their high-flying stock price. I wouldn't be surprised if Joel Klein has some NSCP shares tucked away for which he paid $80/share. -GG-