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

To: J. P. who wrote (32731)	11/7/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: BMcV	Respond to of 74651

It's no fun to loss money in the market--I should know as an ex-shareholder in FTP Software, whose main product was "emulated" by MSFT and incorporated in Window 95, driving the company into a very unfavorable merger. FTPS never did complain, though if they had, I might have figured out sooner what was going on with the stock. My guess is that there are hundreds of other companies who never had a chance to voice concerns about MSFT's behavior before they vanished. As far as SUNW and NSCP go, I agree the latter did spend an awful lot of time whining--far too much to be convincing. Sun, on the other hand, really has done a lot to promote open systems--just look at Java--and I think is justified in protecting their work from being subsumed by a competitor. And whether or not they whined excessively really doesn't bear on the issue of fair competition (which itself seems impossible to define). Let's hope for the best tomorrow--FWIW, I'm in the camp that most of this is priced in the stock already.