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

To: Alan Buckley who wrote (11662)	10/22/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Alan - likewise, how many options do AS400 users have? folks forget that the decision to use MSFT as the OS supplier was made when there was no other HW supplier but IBM, it was just an OS outsourcing. The possibility of a clone market was created by outfits like Compaq who reverse engineered the IBM PC technology and BIOS. Their goal was to make the machines as compatible as possible, and a close relationship with MSFT was the best way to do it. At that time, MSFT had 100% of the market, just like solaris on sparc, IBM on AS400, etc. From that standpoint, MSFT has been losing their monopoly position ever since.