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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23214)	4/9/1999 7:26:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Forbes - April 19,1999 Microsoft's suffering in antitrust court is not all in vain. It will educate a generation of trial lawyers. Object lesson By Daniel Lyons forbes.com "This is a disaster," says Alan Dershowitz, professor at Harvard Law School. "Lawyers watching this case are aghast. This case will be taught at law schools for years to come as an example of how not to conduct a trial." ... If Microsoft loses, companies will crawl out of the woodwork to sue over its business practices. Much of the heavy lifting already has been done. "From Paris to Jakarta to Tokyo, every class action lawyer in the world is watching this case with bated breath," Dershowitz says. Intel Corp., Microsoft's cool-tempered ally, recently settled its own antitrust case with the FTC. It suffered nary a scratch. Microsoft apparently hopes to do the same. Two words for that: fat chance.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23214)	4/9/1999 7:56:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Hi Dan, I wonder how this will work. I think they'll take the base Windows NT 2000 (consumer 2000 is something else) and twiddle a couple of bits and get: Windows Server Appliance... twiddle a couple of other bits and get: Windows 2000, ... and keep twiddling just a couple of bits in strategic locations and get any one or more of the following: Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Data Center. What I'm saying is that there will be just one code base, and the different parts will be disabled/enabled depending upon which "SKU" you're talking about. ...and so I think it will go.... Any and all of them will be large, slow, and buggy. FWIW Andy