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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (19883)	9/20/1999 4:43:00 AM
From: Byron Xiao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear Mephisto. Linux is a cool OS. Everyone should install it on their PC. It's free. I don't understand the security issue you husband brought up. I studied both UNIX and NT. UNIX does provide a very clean security protection mechanism, even more so than NT. NT is NOT more secure than UNIX. If you ask 100 computer professionals, 99 will agree. The other one works for Microsoft, so... My company sited "unfavorable Market condition" in late July, early August as the reason to delay the IPO. Now they are saying it probably won't go until next year. I am just going to sit and wait for that. My cousin's company went public though. Their stocks went from $15 - $45 after the IPO. So he made about $300,000 in a month in his options. I still have to wait a long time for mine to go. By the way, my company is called MarketOrder.com, a pretty cool name. I heard the CEO paid $10,000 for this domain name in 1997. It's now worth about $50,000. Right now, our private investors just finished re-calculate the capitalization for my company. Each share is worth about $10. Of course, I got it much, much cheaper, about 10 cents a share. So I think I should do OK if my company goes public, whenever that is. After that, I will vest all my shares and quit my job. I will probably take couple years off, get marry and travel around the world (I had planned a honeymoon in the exotic Fiji Island in South Pacific ocean this new millennium. I wanted to go to Fiji because that's the first place on Earth to step into the new millennium. but I had to cancel that trip now because the delay in our IPO.) Well, I have no honeymoon plans now. I just hope tech stocks don't get crushed next year when my company plans to go public.