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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (22186)	12/17/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

Wrong again, Reg. >>> A lengthy way of agreeing with me. Trumpet made applications that were obsolesced by MSFT's inlcusion of the Winsock into the OS. <<< Trumpet made (makes, actually) drivers, and Trumpet makes applications. The applications could work on top of any tcp/ip connection. So, the (original, simple) drivers were obsoleted, as should be. The applications continued to work with winsock, of course, and at first MSFT had no newsreader, so people continued to buy and use the Trumpet newsreader, and all was well there, for a short time. It was IE and Netscape, the applications, that competed with and nearly wiped out, the Trumpet Newsreader. Do you get it: tcp/ip stack - not an application - obsoleted by msft winsock. trumpet application - the newsreader - not obsoleted by winsock, but by Netscape and IE. Now Trumpet still exists, in a small way. They not only sell an improved news and mail reader, they also sell an improved winsock of their own. This one lets multiple computers on your lan share a dialup connection. It is thus superior to the MSFT product in a small way and so continues to have a niche to play in. However, they are pretty far from being a big successful company. As it stood not so long ago, you could have installed the new trumpet winsock, and IE would still have run on top of it, having not been 'integrated' yet. So a competitive space would have been left open for the driver. And had you not integrated IE, a bigger space would be left open right now for the trumpet news/mail reader, but this exclusionary IE integration is currently hurting Trumpet again. And this time, not in an honest way. Now stop being so incredibly obtuse. If you want to really learn something here you will have to open up and adsorb some information. Cheers, Chaz