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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shea Jones who wrote (21691)	4/27/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Well, I for one was really impressed by msft's entry into the enterprise software arena with sql server and NT (even though lots of people in the database world - at Sybase and Oracle - were complaining about msft I regarded them as "crybabies"). Anyway I changed my views after the netscape shenanigans msft pulled with the boxmakers. There simply was no excuse for "forcing" cpq and Dell to pull nscp from the desktop under the guise of supportability of windows. I think msft made a bad call there and jeapordized their future when what they should have done was do what they have done all along - compete successfully against nscp. The DOJ in the past didn't really want to prosecute msft - remember the early trials where all they got was a slap on the wrist, and that was Reno too - but this stuff with the boxmakers just pushed everybody too far. Anyway I know many here disagree with me on specifics however I think a case can be made for looking at msft as several different companies. Some branches like the NT group really don't display any kind of anticompetitive behavior whatsoever and then there is the OEM group where things are much more vague. Michelle