JTK wrote:
>
> Patrick Gallagher wrote:
> > JTK wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> [PS: WHY DOES HITTING ENTER *STILL* DOUBLE-SPACE EVERYTHING, GOD!]
>
> >> Yeah whatever. I fully expect AOL to drop the suit in a month or so
> >> now that they see the non-reaction it's getting.
> >
> >
> > Pipe dream?
>
> Your words. Well said, but your words.
>
> > Much of the antitrust case that MS just lost
>
> See, I keep hearing that they "lost" too. What did they lose exactly?
> There's still a single Microsoft Inc., right? Still nobody willing to
> compete with them, right?
JTK, you know nothing of the history of this. There was only one
strategic mistake by Netscape that caused serious problems. Netscape did
not realize in time the significance of bundling by Microsoft. In other
words, they did not correctly estimate when browser revenue would
disappear by about one or two quarters. They established Netcenter but
it did not generate compensating revenue in time. The slip of just a
couple of quarters in transitioning revenue created the problem and at
the same time created the solution. The rapidly growing revenue of
Netcenter made Netscape desirable to AOL. However, the revenue loss due
to Microsoft bundling (illegal no matter how you look at it) is likely
nearly a billion (they will probably only be able to recover revenue
loss during the business transition to Netcenter).
You are pretty green about business and you really don't have a clue
about what happened
Chuck
--
... The times have been,
That, when the brains were out,
the man would die. ... Macbeth
Chuck Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
