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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (22932)	3/8/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Thanks for that great post, Chaz. Enterprise software I guess is the one arena where the platform didn't carry the day. Still, as your post suggests it is pretty standard procedure to use size as a competitive advantage if you are a software vendor. And then there is my Oracle example (which is a little closer to the msft business model than the Netscape example) where the platform vendor didn't prevail. The point is, I think the entire claim against msft that rests on the notion that their ownership of the platform solely constitutes anticompetitive behavior by definition is a bit bogus. That would imply that platform owners always win (untrue) and more importantly, would open the floodgates for every smaller company to sue every larger company that competes in its space as you point out. I'm no msft lover but this seems a bit ridiculous. Otoh, msfts behavior in the OEM arena was way out of line.... that is where legal intervention is necessary imo. Michelle