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Makes no sense at all
I'm a "software engineer" now, but I've been a marketeer for a long time before. What I know to be true in marketing is that successful products are the ones that differentiate themselves from the pack and then prove to the world that they are better. Then the world will beat a path to your door and you will be rich and successful. Like Microsoft.

If server OS suppliers insist on obtaining Microsoft's "secrets" (do you have any idea what they are talking about?) so that they, too, can be just like Windows, they are deliberately choosing a "me too" kind of product presence and are doomed to a life of second-best tail chasing of whatever Microsoft chooses to do next. They don't think that is a very good strategy at Harvard and I don't think they like it at Stanford either.

Microsoft may be impossible to beat in the market, but their competitors are making it that much harder on themselves with what seem to be business plans that are doomed from the start.

I don't really have the time to read all the source materials in this case, but I don't get any sense of any reality from the reporting that is going on.
Posted by: Bill Weisgerber   Posted on: 03/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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The real MS problem goes unaddressed  bjbrock | 03/24/04
The problem with iyur argument is no one is forcing them to use MS.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/24/04
yea but he can't buy a dell without windows  JoeMama_z | 03/24/04
And nobody was forced to smoke Marlboros  IT_User | 03/24/04
Can't compare physical safety with data safety  vferrara | 03/25/04
Nobody is forcing me to buy Ford either...  NemesisNL | 03/25/04
waw !!!  Ardian Daka | 03/25/04
Me, sort of  tic swayback | 03/25/04
waw!!! II  NemesisNL | 03/25/04
Nobody is forcing me to buy Ford either...  seosamh_z | 03/25/04
Here is the picture you wanted.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
Apple users seem to think that works  vferrara | 03/25/04
No  NemesisNL | 03/26/04
You're kidding, surely?  Fred Fredrickson | 03/25/04
Regarding software EULAs  Shell_z | 03/25/04
EULAs  Update victim | 03/25/04
Because you didn't pay for it  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
You have it exactlly 180 degrees backward.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
Eulas and liability  TokyoPete | 03/25/04
Expletive undeleted (NT)  Update victim | 03/25/04
Yes sir, as they say, the rubber is about to meet the road.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/24/04
So according to your theory of law...  B.O.F.H. | 03/24/04
Notice the lack of reply?  NemesisNL | 03/25/04
Just locker room bravado  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
Priorities  tic swayback | 03/25/04
Makes no sense at all  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
Marketing  tic swayback | 03/25/04
And the world is flat  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
Because there was nothing worth replying too.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
So according to your theory of law...  seosamh_z | 03/25/04
Ne "theory" involved.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
Repeating nonsense  NemesisNL | 03/26/04
Gee, according to this  IT_User | 03/24/04
Are you not reading.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
As I understand it...  Richard Flude | 03/24/04
What is the issue here?  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
What is the issue here?  rjones_z | 03/25/04
The issue is...  Richard Flude | 03/25/04
What a Load...  moodytx | 03/25/04
Newspapers don't share stories?  bknabe@... | 03/26/04

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