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- From: sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <C07tMn.Luu@csulb.edu>
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
- References: <1992Dec28.231337.1515@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <C073ME.D5I@csulb.edu> <1993Jan2.021644.23680@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:18:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.021644.23680@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <C073ME.D5I@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >|> >The reason Microsoft is still around is good business, plain and simple.
- >|>
- >|> You don't read very carefully.
- >
- >Wait a minute! Just because I don't agree with the post I'm replying to
- >doesn't mean that I didn't read it carefully!
-
- I take it back, the reason isn't that you don't read carefully ...
- it's that you don't think that way.
-
- >
- >|> 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.
- >
- >I've carefully read the above, and I see where you're comming from, but
- >it won't wash because you can think of lots of counter examples.
- >Digital research was the sole supplier of CP/M--a "virtually essential
- >component" of all 8080 systems being sold. Why didn't Digital Research
- >grow to be as big as Microsoft?
- >
-
- DR was immensely successful for those reasons but in a relatively
- miniscule market. Then they stupidly missed the IBM-PC (compatible)
- market boat. Result: small market -> small company.
-
- --
- Jeff Sicherman
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