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- From: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.misc
- Subject: Re: DISMANTLE MICROSOFT (Was Re: Industry market shares)
- Message-ID: <2445@snap>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:47:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.175346.14193@netcom.com> <1993Jan21.160142.7877@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1993Jan22.073622.21914@reed.edu>
- Reply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
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- In article <1993Jan22.073622.21914@reed.edu> orpheus@reed.edu (P. Hawthorne) writes:
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- > If the U.S. Government can't or wont stand up to them, who can or will?
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- Actually, I sort of suspect that Microsoft is about to drown in its
- own waste product (MS-DOS).
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- We have just reached the point where a standard PC is Unix-capable.
- Meanwhile Unix is making major inroads in the traditional business
- mini/mainframe market. Any month now DP managers are going to notice
- that they can run the same OS on everything from the corporate
- mainframe to the clerk's PC, and that this OS comes with networking,
- email, file sharing, multi-tasking, GUIs and any other buzzword they
- pick (and its an "open system" as well).
-
- The thing that stands in the way of this dream is the current practice
- of marketing Unix spreadsheets etc at 2-5 times the price of the
- equivalent MS-DOS version (if at all). But if a few major
- organisations go for Unix PCs (they can negotiate organisation
- licenses for these things, at saner prices) then we should reach the
- boostrap point and Microsoft is doomed.
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- If you have any shares in Microsoft, sell them now.
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- Paul.
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