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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (29441)	9/14/1999 6:56:00 PM
From: t2	Respond to of 74651

JFD, I get your point. I had tried playing Oracle on the short side expecting it to drop but my timing was off. I should have just taken a longer term horizon. BTW--you are a meanie!! But i don't mind.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (29441)	9/14/1999 7:04:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

IBM/Lotus--working out deal with MSFT. I guess my hunch is going to prove true as we hit Windows2000 release. Should be more deals on the way. dailynews.yahoo.com Lotus To Add Support For Microsoft Multimedia Format SEATTLE (Reuters) - Users of Lotus Notes and Domino applications will be able to swap audio and video files created with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) technology under an expanded collaboration agreement to be announced Wednesday. Under the deal Lotus Development Corp. will integrate Microsoft's Windows Media Technology with Release 5 of its Lotus Notes and Domino product lines beginning early next year, executives of the two companies said. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Lotus, a unit of International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news), forged a similar deal with Microsoft rival RealNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq:RNWK - news) last year, so the new agreement will give customers a choice of multimedia formats. ''We recognize that both Real and Microsoft are providing excellent multimedia solutions,'' said Jeanette Horan, vice president of communications product development for Lotus. ''What we're trying to do here is give customers a choice.'' She said developers from Microsoft and Lotus were working together to integrate the latest version of Microsoft's client and server multimedia platform with the latest versions of the Lotus and Domino products released this year. The deals with Microsoft and RealNetworks give users of Lotus products the ability to easily include ''streaming'' multimedia files. Streaming media allows users to begin seeing or hearing files almost immediately, unlike older file formats that can require lengthy download times and tie up network bandwidth. Lotus Notes is one of the leading software packages for messaging and managing corporate information, with more than 40 million active users, although its market share has been slipping under a fierce onslaught from rivals including Microsoft's Exchange system. Anthony Bay, general manager of Microsoft's streaming media division, said the agreement with Lotus was an example of the software industry's ''competition'' model, in which companies compete in one sphere and cooperate in another. ''If it makes sense to provide interoperability we work to do that,'' he said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------