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

To: ed who wrote (34211)	11/18/1999 2:11:00 AM
From: Bindusagar Reddy	Respond to of 74651

11/17 11:57P (WJ) WSJ(11/18): Microsoft Has Best High-Tech Reputation Story 7040 (J.SNY, AMZN-D, AMZN, AOL, AOLN-D, CPQ, CPQC-D, DELC-D, DELL...) By Ronald Alsop Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Internet stocks have created instant millionaires. Shoppers are buying everything from groceries to Gucci online. And the media are enjoying an advertising bonanza, as dot-com companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to get noticed. Yet when it comes to the best reputations in the digital-technology world, people still put their faith in companies with tangible products and services - and a solid track record in the marketplace. Despite the government's antitrust suit and all the related negative publicity, Microsoft Corp. ranked No. 1 in a new study of the reputations of the most prominent technology companies. The software giant scored especially well for financial performance, vision and leadership and workplace environment. Close behind Microsoft in the online consumer survey were such established companies as Intel Corp., Sony Corp., Dell Computer Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. Gateway Inc., the personal-computer company, ranked No. 6 in the study. "My family and I absolutely adore Gateway," said Pam Pallak, 51 years old, of Cheyenne, Wyo., who purchased a second Gateway PC after her son enrolled at the University of Wyoming. "When we had problems with our computer because of power fluctuations, Gateway replaced our monitor, no questions asked." Most Internet companies, on the other hand, ranked in the bottom half of the 40 digital companies in the study. America Online Inc. placed dead last, and even popular online retailer Amazon.com Inc. placed only 22nd. The new online universe still seems rather ethereal to some people. "I have reservations about the reliability of online companies in general," said one respondent. "I believe that if you were to have a problem with a product or service, you would have a nearly impossible time rectifying it due to the fact that the company has no home base you can contact." Yahoo! Inc. was the only Internet company to crack the top 20, ranked at No. 18. "Yahoo! is home for me," one enthusiastic respondent said. "Yahoo! helped us to find my husband's brother, [whom] we hadn't been able to find in five years. I can get into the auctions and go to places I will only dream about." The ranking of the 40 most visible technology companies, made available exclusively to The Wall Street Journal, resulted from a two-phase national study this fall by the research and survey firm Harris Interactive Inc. and the Reputation Institute, a New York research group. Telecommunications-service providers, media companies, conglomerates like General Electric Co. and subsidiaries of companies, such as the Netscape Communications unit of America Online and 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing Digital-technology companies Percentage of respondents that received the highest active in the stock market corporate reputation ratings who said they will among online computer users. definitely or probably buy these stocks. Company Reputation Company Will or may Quotient* purchase stock 1 Microsoft 82.27 Dell 74% 2 Intel 81.50 Lucent 67 3 Sony 79.85 Gateway 63 4 Dell 79.62 Microsoft 63 5 Lucent 78.35 Sun Microsystems 62 6 Gateway 78.28 Intel 61 7 Eastman Kodak 78.23 Cisco Systems 59 8 Texas Instruments 77.57 IBM 54 9 Cisco Systems 77.23 Micron 53 10 Hewlett-Packard 77.20 Compaq 51 11 Xerox 77.17 Symantec 49 12 Symantec 76.73 Motorola 48 13 Intuit 76.70 Yahoo! 48 14 Sun Microsystems 76.58 Texas Instruments 47 15 IBM 76.02 Advanced Micro Devices 46 (END) DOW JONES NEWS 11-17-99 SUNW IS STUID #14, a RIP=OFF company, which will be exposed by Win2000 server, which will blow the teeth off of Sleazy Scott McNealy. Joe the Joker Klein and stupid Jackson should read this sentiment survey. Gore and politicians should pay attention as well. This is great news for MSFT, with perfect timing. BR 11:57 PM Story 7044 WSJ(11/18): Microsoft Has -2: Dot-Coms Trail 16 Motorola 75.84 Eastman Kodak 46 17 Red Hat 75.41 Novell 46 18 Yahoo! 74.91 Red Hat 46 19 3Com 74.89 Hewlett-Packard 45 20 Canon 74.86 E*Trade 44 21 Nokia 74.27 Mindspring 44 22 Amazon.com 74.23 Adobe 43 23 Mindspring 73.77 Xerox 43 24 Adobe 73.45 Oracle 42 25 Nortel Networks 71.82 3Com 38 26 Oracle 71.80 Nokia 38 27 Philips 71.69 AOL 37 28 Novell 71.43 Intuit 34 29 AMD 71.34 EBay 33 30 Excite@Home 71.07 Sony 33 LOOK at STUPID CHEATER AOL IS, IT is not on the MAP. It is DEAD LAST. AOL stupids think they own the Net by AOL name. All these idiots have is the name. Great innovation just like Columbus. BR