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

To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (32759)	11/7/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Bob: You and the judge are a little late in your pronouncement of MSFT's hegemony. Not a great stroke of brilliance. I thought Sun/Unix was the real industrial strength answer and that they were far superior to the poor offerings, as you describe them, provided by MSFT. It is peculiar that other IT professionals do like the NT system and look forward to the introduction of W2K. By your own admission there are no other products that supply the applications and service. You choose to blame this on MSFT. I choose to blame it on all the failed attempts to make Unix a viable inexpensive and practical. You will argue that is because Unix did not develop the desk top market first. I agree but that is the vision thing. Sell the desk tops first and then network them. Did you see the post extolling the credentials of your hero Jackson by the way?http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=11837704 There is a saying "A poor workman blames his tools" JFD

To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (32759)	11/7/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: J. P.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Hey Bob, I'm a consultant also who's dealt with a very wide array of software and networks over the years. Can you name me a software company that is responsive, and quickly resolves integration and application errors? A software company that doesn't hide behind phone messages and help desks that are limited in their technical expertise. I don't know of any software at all that isn't unstable under certain sets of circumstances. Once you find the limitations of a software product, the companies are unvariably reluctant to change their source code to suit the individual application. The project I'm on right is a case in point, Filenet imaging software, buggy and limited requiring source code modification.