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To: RetiredNow who wrote (19038)	11/6/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: JRH	Respond to of 77397

Hi Mindmeld: I agree with your thoughts and am curious about the matter as well. It would seem to me that Cisco, being the customer oriented manufacturer that they are, should not turn a cold shoulder to the NDS customers out there. They could push for their customers to use AD (per their agreement with MSFT), but they need to support NDS.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (19038)	11/7/1998 11:35:00 AM
From: jach	Respond to of 77397

<How exactly will Cisco benefit from this joint development of ADS? It's obvious what MSFT has to gain, but it seems that Cisco is providing the knowledge for little gain. Please, someone enlighten me. Tell me I'm wrong. What is Cisco gaining?> Not gaining but probably losing. Note that MSFT will love to get a piece of that great margin networking business. WIN NT 5.0 is make to support many networking features. For small to medium businesses, NT 5.0 can support most of the networking needs eliminating the need for Routers.