Re: No Microsoft Breakup -- MIDRANGE-NONTECH

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Subject: Re: No Microsoft Breakup
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:49:44 -0500
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How many things (FTP, Apache, DB2, etc) are not bundled
with OS/400? There is nothing wrong with bundling per se.
What is wrong (both in Microsoft's and IBM's case) is that
the information needed for a competitor to produce a
competing product is not generally available, that is: the
product uses APIs or knowledge about the OS internals
that is not generally available.

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