> From: Brett Lorenzen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> *heehee*
>
> PalmOS fans will like this one:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/15689
> .html
>
>
>
You know, MS keeps giving me reasons to ReallyReallyReally dislike them.
And for anyone who still thinks that they didn't/aren't using existing
products to "buy" market share for MSIE, please see this commentary from an
ISP who chose MSIE over NN ....
>From Internet Valley -- scroll to the bottom of this page (or read the
excerpt):
http://www.internetvalley.com/intvalweb.html
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Internet Valley, Inc.)
From: Bob Ney
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 18:24:41 -0700
. . . . . .
As an ISP, I want to give my customers a software package for their
use. I contacted Netscape.
- They said they would let be customize and repackage their product,
if I committed to buy 2500 the first year at $17 each.
I said OK, I can do that.
- Then they said, great please send your check for 50% of the moneys
due.
That's $21,250. As a small ISP I dont have that available without
dipping into my reserves.
I am then contacted by Microsoft and was told they would send me
this really nice customization kit, which will build a release for Win95,
Win NT, Win3.1 and install Explorer 3, Netmeeting, a commercial TCP dialer
and stack. And it has a automated user sign up server built into it.
It will build a CD Rom image, if I want to distribute that way. It
configures with a wizard in about 5 minutes. It's seamless and a really good
piece of software and installer.
I said that it sounded great, how much?
- No charge. Distribute it all you want to your customers. Have
fun.
Microsoft is such a monster company that they can drop multi
millions into development of a product package that they will give away.
Netscape on the other hand actually wants to make a bit of money on
their product.
Thinking of myself first, I took the Microsoft software. So will
most other ISP's...
Kathy
> Kathy E. Gill
> DCAC/MRM Production Visibility Support -- 425.234.2004, pager 425.568.0195
> The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at
> doing what they most enjoy. ~ Malcomb S. Forbes
> Microsoft Exchange: the perfect name for its users' greatest desire!
>
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