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

To: rudedog who wrote (11975)	11/1/1998 12:27:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Rudedog, Two points in response to you. I was told Gates actually visited Symbol within the last 2 weeks in NYC. As for who from MSFT actually laid down the law on licencing pricing - if it was Gates himself or his minion sitting right beside him - I really don't think that matters squat. To think that Gates had no influence in the strategy put at Symbol's doorstep is to be naive. (this is sounding very much like the Iran-Contra affair - make sure that you take the bullet for the President if this ever gets out). As for the pricing of $50 vs $3. You dont understand what companies like Symbol get from MSFT for $3. All they need is the MS-DOS OS. It is a bare-bones stripped-down OS-only licince. They are not buying a full-blown OS and all DOS software and utilities edition. The DOS is loaded into flash ROM. It is only required to get to a WinFrame server for all the real operations. So you are correct that $50 might be the licencing costs for OEMs that want full DOS but that is not what Symbol is licencing from MSFT. So you might want to re-evaluate the credibility of my news. Again, I am not expecting pro-MSFTers to believe me at all. I am just posting what I have heard. And it was not hard to believe when I heard it! Toy