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>But I think that IBM could make the case that the real competition >is not between AIX and Solaris but between Microsoft and everyone else. Does this mean that MS could buy Borland claiming that the "real competition" is between Java and the rest of the programming languages? If your statement is true, that the real competition is between MS and everyone else, allowing "everyone else" to consolidate into "only IBM" is just as bad for competition as allowing the two primary unix vendors to consolidate. -Walden PS. What's wrong with a company that issues a 35-billion dollar dividend, buys back 35-billion in stock and still have 25 billion in the bank? <G> PPS. Um, MS is giving back to shareholders as much money as Congress allocated for the war in Iraq -- I'm not sure which scares me more. <G> ------------ Walden H Leverich III President & CEO Tech Software (516) 627-3800 x11 WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.TechSoftInc.com Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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