RE: Oracle to buy Peoplesoft... another twist...M$ goes afterJDE ???

["Dennis Lovelady" <dlovelady@xxxxxxxx>]

There is no issue with Macrosloth being the only "train on the track," as
you poetically put it.

The issue comes in when they use their (fully legal) monopolistic status to
kill and/or stave-off would-be competitors.

I don't see that a move such as the one proposed, would endanger their
position.  Unfortunately.

Dennis



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<snip>
Says Dominy, "A Microsoft acquisition of J.D. Edwards would give Microsoft
access to several thousand IBM iSeries and AS/400 users whom it could
migrate to Microsoft infrastructure."
<end snip>
   MS wants to stay clear of Anti Trust laws, they can't be the only train
   on the track.
   They were burned on that issue recently.