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

To: Alex Raytselsky who wrote (28078)	8/11/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Alex, Dangerous words to say such evil things like Linux and NetWare marketshare both gaining. I know its true but these people dont want to here that! The huge initial crest of the Directory Services wave that NDS is beginning to ride with its recent 8th generation of NDS will begin to take some larger bites out of NT5/Windows2000 in the future. Active Directory will be release #1 and as we all know from MSFT history, it will not be risking your business on to deploy MSFT's 1st generation DS when there is substantially more mature product out there with NDS. But with that being said, these board people want to think that their MSFT stock has been stale for over 6 months because of market conditions and not anything to do with strategic MSFT market and product errors. You better apologize to this board for bringing on such blunt honesty! Toy

To: Alex Raytselsky who wrote (28078)	8/12/1999 10:28:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Linux and NetWare both gaining market share. Users are becoming more negative on the lock of stability. Firstly Linux shipments are increasing but it still only accounts for about 3% of the desktop. Linux is a good techie desktop but for your average end user it's not as user friendly and you have to settle for 2nd rate desktop applications; it's two years away to be where Windows is now. Netware add-ons are mainly back-end and tend to run on NT as value add. I find my Win98 and NT 4.0 very stable? MSFT is also very slow in getting new releases and fixes Hmmmm not to my knowledge. Did you ever try to call their tech support? Yes I did; I was very impressed. They were very competent. From what I see of Novell they are basing their future around NDS; a directory service. They have a place in the fray but I don't see them as a dominant player. /James