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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Prognosticator who wrote (21785)10/26/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: trouthead  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
I am not technical enough to debate low level software choices with specifics. But it seems to me that saying MSFT will do whatever they have to do to make money is not an indictment. It is what I want a company I have invested in to do. If they produce a product that is so inferior and causes the user enough pain the user will switch. Just as many on this thread have done. Though for the majority of us it works just fine. I have not lost data from a crash for a very long time. I am not saying it doesn't happen, it does. But if the crashes were affecting MSFT's bottom line they would adapt to the market and change.

I have also recently tried to set up a box running Linux. Fergeddabout it. Wasn't going to happen. And I am fairly adept with computers. I am a QA tester. But the learning curve to get it up and running for my purposes far outweighed any perceived stability advantage.

MSFT makes tradeoffs. All software companies do. You have to ship the product. You weigh the known defects against the number of possibly affected customers and when that number is low enough, you ship. I can't believe that SUNW is any different.

Could it be that because MSFT is everywhere it's problems are more noticeable?

Thank you for the respectfull post.

Sincerely,
jb
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