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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (22686)	2/15/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

I think this is why Microsoft has recently reorganized with new divisions similar to those I proposed for the breakup. With the new divisions in place and debugged as independent units by the time the trial winds around to the solutions phase, including team and personnel moves, it will be only natural for the court to break the company apart along the unit divisions already arrived at by the company last month. After the breakup, what? Do you let each invade the others' space, or do you have some governmental or judicial bureaucracy keeping each in its place? One other comment: One good point that was made about McNealy/Bork is that breaking it up might stop Win 2K in its tracks. One response, it seems to me, might be to allow them to cooperate in the development of this and other projects, with the understanding that each company will market them separately. That might also address some of the issues about splitting up the platform and the like. They could jointly develop a set of common APIs and then each do their own proprietary stuff in addition to the stuff they have in common. I mean, if it's good enough for Semantech or Motorola/IBM/Apple to do with chips, why not do the same with software development?