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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:47:03 GMT
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- In article <8262@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- |> You cut out the part where I explained the difference: MS isn't selling
- |> anything that gains from being shipped just in time. Your analogy is fatally
- |> flawed.
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- I appologize if I cut out something vital to your argument. I've tried to
- scrupulously include everything. Mea Culpa.
-
- |> Further, I've worked for manufacturers who practiced Just in Time inventory
- |> control without depending on a sole source for the items purchased. That is
- |> not a central feature of the technique.
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- No sole sourcing isn't a vital feature of the technique, but a JIT inventory
- control agreement between you and a supplier does put a new upstart supplier
- at a "competitive disadvangage". My point wasn't that Microsoft is practicing
- JIT, my point (which admittadly was badly worded) was that _if_ a business
- agrees to have a single source for a component, often the supplier of that
- component can agree to offer it for a much reduced price, especially in
- the context of a long-term JIT type of arrangement, because they know that
- they will have a steady and stable customer. _That_ of agreement between
- a customer and a supplier is, as you say, "A Good Thing", and shouldn't be
- made illegal no matter if the supplier is Ace nuts & bolts or Microsoft.
-