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To: William who wrote (5256)	5/27/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 8218

No positive IBM effect should shut up a paranoid Gates who last year saw IBM ghosts under his bed and opined: " the interview published in the magazine's Jan. 19 issue, Gates pointed to rival IBM as the leader of the anti-Microsoft camp, which also includes Netscape Communications Corp., Oracle Corp., and Sun Microsystems Inc. He said IBM was motivated by Microsoft's decision to end joint development of the OS/2 operating system and focus instead on Windows NT in the early 1990s. ''What people don't understand is how IBM -- after they divorced us -- set out to eliminate us,'' he said. ''Their influence is way beyond what we have.'' " www5.zdnet.com The DOJ didn't believe Gates and sued . A year later MSFT is much larger and Netscape doesn't exist , but IBM has a notebook for the DOJ to read . Should be interesting . Jim K.