Re: Wall Street may see MS deals as bad news

[stan johnson <sjohnson@gwi.net>]

** Reply to note from mstone@vc.net Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:47:28 -0500 (EST) 
> ESRI is a perfect example of why this sort of reasoning is just plain wrong. 
> ESRI can survive a partnership with Microsoft because they are not just 
> months or years, but decades, ahead of them in a very arcane area of 
> technology.  
 
Unless, of course, M$ concludes that there's big money or power or the   
potential for either there, or sees any threat to their hegemony; in which case   
they'll, if need be, make one or more key programmers offers they can't refuse. 
 
Stan

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