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To: Fun-da-Mental#1 who wrote (27109)	9/24/1999 5:14:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

>I bet Balmer knew exactly what he was doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was just trying to hurt internut stocks. Thats it. He couldn't have possibly been telling the truth. I mean, every analyst on earth who is trying to sell internut stocks says the exact opposite thing. They obviously have no agenda! We should all TRUST them blindly. Ballmer obviously doesnt know anything about technology or valuation. The president of the largest and most profitable technology company on earth COULDN'T know what he is talking about. That's the ticket.

To: Fun-da-Mental#1 who wrote (27109)	9/24/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: re3	Respond to of 99985

<<<I bet Balmer knew exactly what he was doing. MSFT's biggest problem these days is competition from startup companies that are totally financed by new share issues. If tech stocks crash, MSFT has little to lose because they're profitable and don't need financing, whereas many of their competitors would collapse, and then MSFT could buy up the survivors at dirt cheap prices. Fun-da-Mental fun - this has been theorized for the yellow metal too... i ain't mentioning no names though <g> ike

To: Fun-da-Mental#1 who wrote (27109)	9/24/1999 11:42:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 99985

RE>> if tech stocks crash, MSFT has little to lose because they're profitable and don't need financing, Not really as they use their own stock as cash in buying up other tech companies, and a crash would eat into their employee option plan. Market timing at best is but short chunks of relative liquidity taht guy is as dumb as a pimple on my rear end. Also the news pundits implying that what he said caused the market to go down are even dumber. The market was ready to drop and he was just an excuse the pundits could hang it on. Jim