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MICROSOFT JUDGE ASKS: WHY 2 PIECES? WHY NOT 3? Rejecting Microsoft's request to have witnesses testify in the remedy phase of the antitrust trial in which it is defending itself, federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is suggesting that he wants to see Microsoft broken into three separate companies, rather than the two proposed by the federal and state attorneys that are prosecuting the case. A 3-piece solution, which has been proposed by "friend-of-the court" briefs offered by industry trade groups, argues that the company should be broken up into an operating system company, an applications software company, and an Internet software and services company, in order to restore competition to the computer industry. But Microsoft's lead attorney said that "there is no Eden of competition for the government to restore," and indicated that the company would appeal the judge's decision as soon as it handed down. (Washington Post 25 May 2000) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A397-2000May24.html http://www.newsscan.com/ janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 / PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada visit my website "a new voice" at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/