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

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (10634)	9/10/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Interesting tactic. MSFT takes the offensive by threatening to drag out the dirty laundry of its competitors, if its own is exposed. I think their assertion that they operate just as ethically as their competitors is correct. Unfortunately, this could further the slide toward regulation of the industry, but then McNealy and Barksdale whining to Orrin Hatch pretty much did us in there. It's inevitable. Microsoft Serves Subpoenas to Netscape, Four Others, Possibly Delaying Its Trial interactive.wsj.com "The subpoenas disclosed by Microsoft Wednesday target Netscape Communications Corp. and what Microsoft called a "gang of four" aligned against it -- Sun Microsystems Inc., Novell Inc., Oracle and International Business Machines Corp. The subpoenas show that Microsoft is seeking evidence that these rivals tried to divide the market for Unix software among themselves -- a charge that echoes one alleged by the government in its pending suit against Microsoft -- or other evidence of collusion among these companies against Microsoft. Unix is an operating system that competes with Microsoft's Windows NT, which is aimed at businesses." "We plan to show that the government's allegations represent an unfair double standard," a Microsoft spokesman said. "Our competitors are doing everything the government accuses Microsoft of doing, and then some."