Why I still own MicroSoft....
1- Very undervalued stock, taken down by the DOJ for over 1 year....
2- Very profitable company, sitting on $ 39 or so billion dollars cash and investments.
3- Very nice Internet properties, comin into their own.
4- The PC is not dead, as a large majority of the world's population does not have one. And MSFT gets a nice cut from every sale
5- Linux on the desktop is a joke. A bad one.
6- DCOM/COM+ is a very sharp architecture for web commerce content delivery and programming. Corba/EJB is still very immature...
7- The "2000" series of products is making me foam at the mouth, from SQL/Server , MSMQ, Exchange 2000 and of course, Windows 2000.
A brand new upgrade cycle is starting, with Y2K out of the way....
8 - Windows 2000 consumer edition late this year, hopefully in time for Xmas...
So even though, boys and girls, it has been a very bad year for Mr Softy (1999, and 2000), anybody crazy enough NOT to be owning this stock by Feb 17th is out of his/her mind !
And I also own . BTW, a ton of Sun Microsystems stock and LEAPS... One should own both, IMHO
Take care
Jean |
