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

To: rudedog who wrote (30173)	9/27/1999 2:15:00 AM
From: Jon Stept	Respond to of 74651

rudedog- re:managing share price... Hi rudedog, With all due respect... I agree that the job of any officer of the company is to manage the share price. One of the more popular ways is to consistently increase earnings. They can do that as much as they want, and probably their share price will go up. When an officer comes out at a non-analyst meeting and says the stock price of his company is too high, there is no context for such a comment and he sets a precedent. So, why not have at Microsoft's web site a page where all the officers can put their opinions of what they think the share price should be? Each one could have a fund. Would you think that is appropriate? I don't. But it would be consistent and now acceptable if we accept what Ballmer said as just another CEO appropriately managing the share price. Since this is now just a way for an officer to manage the share price, why not nurture and mature this strategy... after all it is acceptable. I mean if he is going to trample over any sense of judiciousness, why not just throw it out the window and go for broke. Let's ramp this up!!! Oh my... the possibilities!!! Just my opinion. Jon :)

To: rudedog who wrote (30173)	9/27/1999 12:19:00 PM
From: Paul van Wijk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The PC is over the top, Ballmer talks the MSFT stockprice down. Sun attacking their biggest cash-cow Office with Star-Office. And hotmail running on Sun hard- and software. So far the good news! The Oracle Applications System Bundle 1.0 includes Oracle Financials, Oracle Manufacturing, Oracle Human Resources, Oracle Supply Chain Management, and Oracle Projects, and will be available simultaneously for Compaq Tru64 Unix, Hewlett-Packard HP/UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and Windows NT. Compaq first mentioned, Windows NT last. A coincidence? Where is Windows2000? What Raw Iron really meant is a trend towards 'tailor-made' OS. And what has Microsoft to offer. The all-in-one-whether-you-like- it-or-not-against-hugh-cost Windows2000. I just realized this weekend that Windows2000 already is an obsolete product before even launching. The trend is tailor-made OS. Linux, Raw Iron and so on. Thus, no Windows2000 needed in the server-arena. Losing the Pc was the good news. Also losing the business-server arena is the real bad news. Comments? No intention for bashing. Just trying to clear up things. Paul biz.yahoo.com