Microsoft and Anti-Trust. Correction on Intuit

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Thu May 28 17:21:11 PDT 1998


On Thu, 28 May 1998, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Microsoft tried to buy Intuit (which makes Quicken) but the Justice
> refused to approve. M's financial software I believe is called *Money*,
> and has (I think) been gaining on Intuit.

Actually, I read somewhere Intuit has been giving MS fits. Intuit has lots of links with major banking institutes, and provided good customer service and a quality software package to go with it; "Money" has had lots of distribution, but hasn't really cracked the lucrative financial-professional market.

And now, Netscape says it's actually making money again. Could it be that the fears of Microsquash-world are overdone? BillG is a vampire, sure, but is Larry Ellison or Marc Andreesen really an alternative?

-- Dennis



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