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- From: sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <C073ME.D5I@csulb.edu>
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
- References: <1992Dec23.013422.24038@sequent.com> <BzpBH3.Los@csulb.edu> <1992Dec28.231337.1515@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:56:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.231337.1515@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <BzpBH3.Los@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >
- >|> Anyway, MS's size and revenue is due a lot more to their presence
- >|> at the dawn of the microcomputer age and having the cash coes of DOS
- >|> and Windows to feed the other activities.
- >
- >Not really. How many bazillion companies can you name which were there
- >at the beginning and which now are out of business or sold out to other
- >companies?
- >
- >The reason Microsoft is still around is good business, plain and simple.
-
- You don't read very carefully. I agree that the reason that they are
- around and doing well is the way the company is run. But the reason that
- they are the size they are and bestride the market to the extent that
- they do is that they were the sole source for a virtually essential
- component of all he microcomputer systems being sold, and one with a very
- low per unit distribution cost and essentially no need for marketing
- (because of its essential and often built-in nature). Plenty of companies
- can be well run but without a blockbuster product that the market *needs*
- they wouldn't succeed as MS has done.
-
-
- --
- Jeff Sicherman
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