This is what I love about the Internet -- ask a question and get silence but make a false claim and you get all the advice you can possibly eat.
OK, I (quite happily) stand corrected about why Microsoft bought Connectix -- it was cheaper given their extensive dependence on the Virtual PC product, including redistribution to outside parties. That's fascinating, actually. Now the reason I brought this up was it seemed like a Heaven- sent bit of circumstantial evidence[1] to inference about a larger business strategy question. That question still stands, but I'll have to look harder for corroborating evidence. --dan, on the road [1] "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, like finding a trout in the milk." -- Henry David Thoreau --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]