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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (32771)	11/7/1999 9:54:00 PM
From: Bob Drzyzgula	Respond to of 74651

You and the judge are a little late in your pronouncement of MSFT's hegemony I've been bemoaning Microsoft's hegemony since before Windows 95. Just not here, sorry. I have no idea when the Judge first made such a conclusion. Keep in mind also, that Microsoft wasn't always a monopoly. Sun/Unix is the industrial-strength answer, just not to every question. Many IT professionals look forward to the introduction of W2K because there is always hope that it will be less horrible than NT 4.0. One needs to consider the preferences of IT managers and IT professionals separately. I did not attempt to identify the reasons why the applications showed up on Windows and not on Unix. I only observe that they did. What I was pointing out was Microsoft's undoubtedly illegal efforts to keep them there, and only there. I did see that post. I know very little about Judge Jackson personally. I say: Politics are politics. You can probably find such statements regarding almost any person you choose in high-level public service. Yes, a poor workman will blame his tools. I assume from this that you suggest that I am a poor workman? Perhaps, but I'm not blaming NT for anything but being a pain in the behind that just makes my job that much more difficult. I didn't say I can't do my job because of Windows, or even that the job that I do is shoddy because of Windows. Given only a pocket knife, a crayon and a yardstick, a fine craftsman could probably still build an elegant oak chair. But expecting him to do it at the same cost and in the same amount of time as it would take if he had a shop full of the finest tools available, and in particular to not cuss up a blue streak the whole time he works on it, is a bit much.