>dBase and Sybase
neither could stand up to MS and Oracle
>share. For example, has anyone tried to buy a copy of MS Word 2000 for $99
>or $69 with a competitive upgrade. Not recently.
"competitive upgrade" from what? monopolists can charge whatever they
want, and MS will bleed the market for every billion they can, and shrub
will encourage them.
>than $500. Today, it can be $5,000. What changed, Novell is no longer a
>threat. Now these are all Microsoft examples but ask yourself, who is
>generally Allaire's competitor in this space
Win 2000 server and IIS are both strategic for MS, do you really think any
other (commercial) players have a chance, over time, on that platform? The
stock market doesnīt. if you can raise cash, youīre dead.
>So who has failed or is really struggling. Sybase,
MSīs version of sybase was always going to have more cred that sybase.
>cc:Mail
early player, but sucky product, Internet swamped it, price was not the pb
>Banyan
interesting but was never a threat to Novell through 80īs and 90īs. price
was not the pb
>Who else is struggling? Well Allaire for one. Macromedia's performance
>hasn't been that stellar recently.
Itīs an MS world, period.
Len
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