<<The message I have for many of you is very, very simple: grow up!>>
Frank, please don't judge us all by the actions of a few. Actually, I think we ought to hear from people like Twister to give us the other viewpoint, so that we can make our investing decisions based on as much input as possible. I have no idea who is going to win the SUN/JAVA vs WINTEL battle. Maybe, there is room in the world for both camps to prosper.
I am fairly familiar with Sun products, having been a Sun system administrator since 1990. I've also done work on IBM and HP Unix workstations. Sun produce good products, but one thing they are missing from a sys admin point of view is a good GUI interface like HP and IBM have for sys admin tasks. IBM has SMIT and HP has SAM. Sun has their Admintool, but it's pretty basic compared to the other two I mentioned. However, Suns will boot up in a fraction of the time it takes HP's and IBM's.
BTW, I'm neither long or short on Sun right now, but I should be relatively cash rich after tomorrow's options expire. A lot of my stocks will be getting called away from me. That means I'm making profits :-). I kind of expect Sun to go close to 40 again, and then I'll be buying for sure. However, I might buy at any price below 45 and sell some 45 or 50 covered calls.
Good luck with your investing. |
