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Re: [POINTCAST SET TO BE SWALLOWED BY NEWS CORP. - 3/21/97]
i agree with paul here---
the value of Pointcast is as much in the market share/customers
of the company as it is in their particular software solution to
push.
---bert
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Paul Jones wrote:
-->Murdoch and others have gotten very rich by buying already proven
-->products and services and managing them well whilst knocking out any
-->competition. That's easier to do if you buy a product with immense market
-->pentration, ala Pointcast, rather than risk your money on somehting
-->untried--as say teh Washington Post did on Digital Ink.
-->
-->On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Karl Lietzan wrote:
-->
-->> Not that I'm any kind of an expert, but I think that Murdoch could develop
-->> something better than PointCast for a lot less than 400 - 500 million.
-->> What's going on here?
-->> Karl
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