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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: QwikSand who wrote (19296)9/4/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Bill Gates once told me that the way to make money in the
computer business is by setting de facto standards, by which
he meant proprietary standards. Microsoft has done just this,
first with its languages, then with DOS, Windows, and with
Office. Microsoft makes incredible profits this way, even in
a market with decreasing prices. But the same thing isn't
happening on the Internet, where Microsoft, for all its
muscle, doesn't dominate and where there are few
proprietary standards.

This speaks to those waiting for the other (MSFT) shoe to drop. Proprietary 'standards' is M$'s entire focus in the same way that the network (open standards) is Sun's.

"Oh, but they're such smart guys up there in Redmond. Surely they've got something big up their collective sleeve".

While loaded with 'focus', they have absolutely no vision beyond the original proprietary precept and leveraging a market which they are quickly losing control over, because... The network is the computer.

-JCJ

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