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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.140713.5853@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:07:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.053145.3332@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >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.
-
-
- If the prices go up, competitors will return, because they have
- a chance to make money.
-
- Also, as new technologies come along, competition pops up.
- For instance, pen-based operating systems. MS hardly has any
- real lead there. It's just as likely that Windows for Pen
- will flop inthe face of PenGeos, or Pen Corp's product.
-
- >With OS/2 selling at a rate of 2 million copies a year, nobody is in any
- >danger of liquidation.
-
-
- Perhaps, but hopefully Pink/Taligent and the PowerPC will do
- better, if just to help IBM and Apple. I find it *very* disconcerting
- that IBM is doing the stereotypical American company thing--
- they're cutting $1 billion in R&D over the next 12 months.
-
-
-
- >|> I don't want MS to control. I don't want IBM to control. I don't
- >|> want one of the Unix variants to control. I want them all to exist.
- >
- >They will!! Neither IBM nor Sun nor NeXT are in any danger of going
- >bankrupt.
-
-
- It is my understanding that Sun has put almost all of
- it's eggs in one basket with Solaris and that it's alienating
- a lot of users. It's a risky time for Sun.
-
- NeXt, too. If NS486 fails to have at least moderate success,
- NeXT is going to have a lot of trouble repaying Canon for all
- of themoney they've been pouring into next lately.
-
-
- >If Novell can purchase UNiX from USL, then they surely arn't
- >in financial difficulties. Word Perfect still sells more copies than
- >Microsoft Word. Lotus is King of spreadsheets, and Borland just about has
- >the database picture locked up.
-
- All ofthese companies are hugeies, too. Somehow, I wish we had
- a wee bit more diversity. But I suppose that's unlikely, the price
- of SW development and support has gotten pretty extreme.
-
-
- --
- Blaming society for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
- --- Boycott == censorship == cowardice ---
- Do I even need to point out that my views do not represent
- those of my employer, institution or relations?
-