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Article #36Re: NOVELL AND NETWORKING
From: Fred Gams
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1995 06:54
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1995 06:54
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I read on the paper early this week about an anti-trust lawsuit against MS. Allegedly Microsoft fends off competitors by announcing "new products" well BEFORE they are ready for sale (ring a bell?), expectant customers won't purchase other products because they don't want to spend money on something which will probably become obsolete when MS releases it's product, even though MS's stuff is probably still on the drawing board while the competition has their's ready to ship... Another part of the complaint, and I think potentially more damaging to MS is the alleged "dumping and unfair pricing practices". Supposedly MS is giving away the store until it's target market competitors go out of business and they can take over (i.e. NT!), I guess that is their strategy against Novell. If MS looses, they could be on the same boat AT&T ended up in. Reportedly, MS has offered to settle FIVE (5) times already, all rejected by the complaint. Who knows, maybe MS'll have to charge above cost for NT and Novell will be able to hold on to their market share. -Fred DISCLAIMER: these are only my opinions and probably wrong.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe659,d2afe77f3e6d352d X-Google-Attributes: gidfe659,public X-Google-Thread: 106983,d2afe77f3e6d352d X-Google-Attributes: gid106983,public X-Google-Thread: 10f035,d2afe77f3e6d352d X-Google-Attributes: gid10f035,public X-Google-Thread: 10fc0e,d2afe77f3e6d352d X-Google-Attributes: gid10fc0e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-01 06:39:18 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!ub4b!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net! agate!news.duke.edu!eff!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!vapor From: vapor@wam.umd.edu (Fred Gams) Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.misc,bit.listserv.novell,comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip,comp.sys.novell,vmsnet.networks.misc Subject: Re: NOVELL AND NETWORKING Followup-To: vmsnet.networks.misc,bit.listserv.novell,comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip,comp.sys.novell,vmsnet.networks.misc Date: 4 Feb 1995 06:54:41 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3gv8bh$gdi@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <3gpejd$ev1@interport.net> <3gs57c$t3b@news.onramp.net> <1995Feb3.092933.12148@ivax> NNTP-Posting-Host: rac7.wam.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]