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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 508.82+0.6%3:59 PM EST

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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (9665)7/26/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Mike Milde  Read Replies (2) of 74651
 
<< Why don't you think Unix ever made it big on teh desk top. Too expensive, they could not amortize development costs over a wide enough revenue base to beat Wintel. >>

UNIX on the desktop? When, exactly, was that ever a goal? UNIX's good attributes are not the available Window managers (gee, it's competitive, you can choose your window manager. :-)). Microsoft still runs it's hotmail.com on UNIX. That speaks for itself.

Mike
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