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- From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 14:26:58 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- In article <1htv10INNp6c@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce
- Dubbs) writes:
- > You still don't get it. As soon as the competitors are forced to
- > liquidate, the prices go up. The best way for things to proceed as
- > they are with competitive prices is to ensure the competition
- remains
- > viable.
-
- Do you see any evidence of this happening, though? In the
- OS market, they have more competition then ever before. Until
- a year ago, I never saw an ad for DR-DOS in the major
- catalogs. Now, Egghead, PC Connection, Microwarehouse, and so
- forth all offer it. Ditto for OS/2.
-
- In the Applications market, MS doesn't control the market
- (unless you count the Mac Applications market, where they
- do control a significant share of the word processor and
- spread sheet markets).
-
- Do you really think MS can drive WordPerfect, Lotus, and
- Borland out of business? Would they even want to?
- WordPerfect for Windows is a selling point for Windows (and
- once you get the WordPerfect users to Windows, you can
- then try to convince them that, while their, the spread sheet
- to use is Excel).
-
- --
- Jim Mann
- Stratus Computer jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
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