Tim Wunder wrote:
>
> JTK wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DeMoN_LaG says...
> >
> >>jesus X wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Marc Leger wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>You're telling me Microsoft is going from 86% to 20%. That's a decrease of
> >>>>66%.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Umm, there was a time when Netscape had 90+ percent of the market, and MS was
> >>>nowhere to be found. Pinhead.
> >>>
> >>
> >>He's just saying it's impossible for that to reverse.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, um, no, he's saying that it's impossible for Mozilla or the Politburo at
> > Netscape "Open"HQ to play any part in such a hypothetical reversal.
> >
> >
> >> He's like a dumb
> >>supervillian. The hero has a weapon that makes him unstoppable, and the
> >>villain takes it away. The villain then thinks he is unstoppable,
> >>because he has the weapon. He doesn't realize that at one point his
> >>adversary had it, and he lost anyway
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The hero had... then the... and he said... what now?
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>>>BUWHAHAHA! Yeah right. I hope Windows XP is Netscape and Mozilla's final
> >>>>nail in their coffin.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Yeah, an OS is going to kill an application that runs on more platforms that the
> >>>OS. Suuuure.
> >>>
> >>I imagine he thinks that somehow IE on XP is going to run on Linux and BeOS?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I imagine 99.44% of the desktops (and 99.99999999999999% of the laptops) in the
> > world will never know what a Linux or a Beos is.
> >
> >
> > --
> > JTK
> >
>
> IBM had, what, 90% of the PC desktops "in the beginning", 95%, 99%?
> Netscape had 90% of the browser "market" (until MS made it a non-market
> by giving it away and "integrating" it into the O/S). The Bell
> corporation had 100% of the telephone (the hardware portion) business.
> Monopolies, er, large beaurocracies fail, eventually. Windows XP and
> .NET could be Microsoft's Microchannel Architecture, although I don't
> think it has the technical advantage that IBM's MCA had over ISA.
>
> MS' desktop monopoly will fail, with or without g'ment intervention.
> Whether it's linux, Be, Apple or someone else that brings it down. It
> will fail.
>
> Tim
The fact is that IBM has not failed. It is still the largest computer
company in the world. Not by a small margin but by a factor of at least
five. I am impressed that IBM has been able to adjust through hard
times. So many companies cannot adjust. Can Microsoft weather
competition? Not with Bill Gates. The mentality is wrong. I have seen it
in other companies that faced competition. IBM remains the front runner
because IBM found a path to business models that work. Can Microsoft do
that? Maybe but they need to get some world class managers in place and
quit farting around in federal court.
Chuck
--
... The times have been,
That, when the brains were out,
the man would die. ... Macbeth
Chuck Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
