Just a small nitpick here: Actually MS was found guilty i.e. convicted of abusing it's monopoly power by a Federal District Court, and this was upheld by the Federal Court of Appeals. The DOJ just prosecuted the case. ;-) << Robert Bushman wrote:>> Multisourcing ------------- Single sourcing products means accepting several risks, including the risk that the single source will become abusive. Recently, Microsoft was found guilty by the Department of Justice of abusing its monopoly power. Maricopa County has a clause (MC1-902) in its procurment procedure to deal with such vendors, but Maricopa County is currently too dependant to even consider invoking the clause with Microsoft. What efforts are being made to mitigate Maricopa County's dependance on a single source which has been found guilty of abusing dependant customers?