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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PMS Witch who wrote (24053)	6/12/1999 9:40:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

CNBC was talking quite a bit yesterday about EBAY's system troubles. It seems like the on-line auction people experienced a system interruption for quite a few hours. Late Friday afternoon, an EBAY representative was being interviewed on-air and explained that their system, from SUN MICROSYSTEMS had failed. I'm pleased it wasn't NT. PW.

To: PMS Witch who wrote (24053)	6/12/1999 11:51:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

PMSW: Interesting point. Amazing to think how the media and the DOJ might cause a market to abandon the best products through pure negative hype. Another intriguing thought is if MSFT were forced to auction their 30,000,000 lines of code how the "winners" would make sense of same at the same speed moving forward as MSFT did. Would they not cry that MSFT had an unfair advantage as they had a 20 year headstart. They would insist no doubt that MSFT wait for them so the consumer would see the same product from all vendors. Innovation would be outlawed for the good of the consumer. JFD P.S. I heard a good lawyer/bureaucrat true story. At a meeting of FERC (the big utility commisars in DC) an engineer told this lawyer/ bureaucrat that his proposal violated Ohms Law. The lawyer quickly responded with the threat to repeal it. True story! This is much akin to Judge Jackson getting all wrapped up the other day in the inherent lack of security in a browser being imbedded in an O/S. We should shut down the engineering schools and let the lawyers change the laws of physics.