Jim,

On pure numbers, I can see where you ere trying to go. Still, you have to reconcile that with MS's overall .NET strategy. If MS were to get behind and promote Fox significantly, it would cause confusion and it would contradict much of the .NET message. Why would MS do that. And from a technical standpoint - .NET is perfectly capable of addressing the needs of small/medium size businesses. You "point" is presented from the flawed premise that Fox someshow is presumptively in a better position to meet this need and that there would be a positive ROI from investing that money n Fox.

I understood perfectly the point you were trying to make - hence the question I posed to you.

< JVP >

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>>Maybe they could give the VFP Team $1 billion of that to address the remaining 99.999% of the small/medium business market.
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>>Given MS's strategic focus, wouldn't make more sense to put that $ behind .NET - and making it more paletable to this business segment?
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>I can only say, John, that if you 'got' the point I was trying to make you wouldn't have answered this way.
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>Jim