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

To: Sonki who wrote (30711)	10/18/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

sonki and All: Here is a nice morale booster: It?s going to be the longest and deepest product cycle in the company?s history," said Mark Specker at SoundView Financial Group. Already, demand for the next generation operating system is apparently very strong. A survey of IT managers by InformationWeek Research found that 74 percent will deploy Windows 2000 Professional widely within a year of its release. Some 68 percent also plan to widely deploy the server-based version within a year. And margins on the next generation of Windows are expected to be even higher than previous versions. Business is also booming in the so-called productivity category, where analysts say Microsoft is enjoying brisk sales of its Office 2000 suite, an upgraded package that combines word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail and other tools common to office desktops. The outlook for Windows 2000 is also buoyed by forecasts for strong sales of high-end servers that are the "bricks and mortars" of e-commerce. Microsoft is already getting a lift from the heavy spending on infrastructure needed to run e-commerce Web sites. Revenues for it's SQL server database management software grew 80 percent in fiscal 1999 -- and an upgrade is planned for next year. JFD