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To: Bearded One who wrote (21721)	11/24/1998 2:08:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

I think the Boulton testimony cuts both ways. It certainly shows that Intel and Compaq have refrained, but it does not explain why. It could be because of Microsoft's predatory conduct, or it could be, as I am sure Microsoft will argue, because prices are too low. Don't get me wrong, this is an argument Microsoft has to make, but one I personally believe they will lose. I think Boulton's concession on independent browsers not being guaranteed to crack the Windows monopoly is far more significant. I am looking forward to reading the cross-x on that one.

To: Bearded One who wrote (21721)	11/24/1998 2:19:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Bearded One - I hate to correct you when your posts are generally so sensible, but Compaq is in the Operating Systems business in a big way - they have more people doing that work than Microsoft. The Operating systems are the 2 Tandem products - Integrity ( a high reliability Unix) and the Himalaya nonstop kernel - and the former DEC products for Alpha, OpenVMS and 64 bit Unix. There are by most estimates nearly 5,000 people in the various groups supporting these products, way more than the 3000 developers who do all of microsoft's operating systems. Partly on account of that work, they understand how much it costs to develop a high quality OS (or even one good enough for a desktop, which evidently doesn't have to be very high quality). Intel also has developed operating systems, and actually had a pretty good one for many years (RMX). But it is just a whole lot easier and cheaper to let someone else do it for the mainstream.