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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Be more creative than the FTC!
- Message-ID: <3536@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:39:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.220753.1755@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <1992Dec20.220753.1755@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
-
- >Why don't Novel, Lotus, et al, find a more creative solution to their problem
- >than just using the FTC as a club against Microsoft? Here are some better
- >alternatives:
-
- They are not "just using the FTC". They are trying to make better apps as well.
- In case of Novell, they are also trying to stop MS from stealing their
- software.
-
- >1. Form a consortium with Digital Research (who makes DR DOS, a fully
- > compatible MS DOS clone) to make a Windows 3.x clone.
-
- DR is working on a Windows clone for ages now. Perhaps it will never
- arive. In the meantime SUN and NextSTEP have running Win31 clones and
- DesqView and OS/2 2.0 are capable of running Windows itsself.
-
- >2. Better yet, stop developing for Windows/Dos until Microsoft does what
- > they want it to. Power plays go both ways. At this point Microsoft's
- > biggest nightmare would be if all of the big software houses dumped
- > Windows and Windows NT and started developing for OS/2 and Unix.
-
- If the big guyes would do that they might lose much market share to MS
- and some new conpanies hoping to get the place of the big guyes.
-
- >3. Cut special deals with PC clone vendors who don't bundle MS-DOS/windows.
- > If they bundle OS/2, give them discount versions of Lotus 123 for
- > OS/2 or Novel for OS/2.
-
- Smart idea, actually IBM is working on this one.
-
- >4. Charge higher prices for Windows versions of their software than for
- > OS/2, Mac, or UNIX versions.
-
- Many already charge more for Win than for DOS. Expect them to ask even more
- for OS/2 2.0 or NT BTW.
-
- >If Windows 3.x wasn't being supported by software developers, it would be
- >going nowhere. If other software companies don't like the way that
- >Microsoft plays, then they don't have to play with Microsoft. There are
- >other games in town.
-
- No. MS has the cards here and (for now) determines how the game is played.
- What COULD happen is that they make fools of themselves with NT (they
- have failed on Access already, they might make the same mistake on NT)
- while IBM is gaining market share with a more and more solid produkt.
-
-
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