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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
MSFT 400.85+1.8%Feb 6 3:59 PM EST
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To: Steve Lee who wrote (95)10/28/1997 7:43:00 PM
From: Jerry Heidtke  Read Replies (3) of 1600
 
>My Microsoft Certification ID is 262819.

And my MS Certification ID is 3565. I guess that's about 259254 before your's, huh? (Unless MS skipped a few, or use a Pentium to assign numbers...).

I've been doing Windows and network consulting to Fortune 500 and other companies (this would be in the US) for a few years myself. I've seen firsthand the effects of the crap^H^H products published by a certain company on the bottom line of these companies, and I've seen several high level managers who bought the marketing BS coming out of Redmond hook, line, and sinker, who later were suddenly unemployed when the true costs of their proposed "solutions" became apparent.

Of course, this doesn't usually become apparent to the pointy haired managers and hand wavers until after the budget has been all spent, and the project is only half-way (or less) to completion.

A long time ago, it was said that no one ever got fired for buying IBM. Some people would have you believe that is true today for Microsoft. The reality is just a little bit different.

Jerry
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