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To: micny who wrote (7196)	8/30/1998 6:00:00 PM
From: g_m10	Respond to of 8545

Michny, Thanks for your response. If someone got confused, you replieed to my post #1631 on Yahoo thread messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com. You're right here, MSFDC doesn't have a "pay anyone capability" You returned me peace of mind. I thought I was confused, but, most probably, confused most of the people that write about competition. In CF bread-and-butter business it doesn't have competition. Should've I put it in bold? ---Actually there are two parts to the front end. I understand this part and it is an interesting one in itself. This is what MS is aiming at. MS is in a mass production business of retail software. They never targeted CF's business-transaction processing. Software for banks' front ends is not MS's business either. There are "only" 9000 thousand banks in the US. It is not MS's scale. The only purpose of doing front end for banks is to get advantage over Intuit. Having designed front ends, they can provide better connectivity of its MS Money than Intuit for its Quicken. Deja vu all over again. They used monopoly in OS to squeeze out Lotus, Borland, WordPerfect, etc. Now they want to squeeze Quicken out through the use of banks' front ends. I think CF has never been a target of MS. It's Intuit who should be worried about. Just MHO.