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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (37964)	2/16/2000 6:33:00 PM
From: Frank Ellis Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

OTOT: There is a Cancer in our Markets, The Fed and the present Political Party The stock market is very uncomfortable with the deterioration of the fundamentals which are now hurting our economy. With oil prices rising out of control, why does Allen Greenspan try to cripple the economy with aggressively hiking interest rates?? I think that investors have totally had it with Greenspan and our present administration.Why does not our leadership wage its concern against the oil cartel for sticking it to every American at the gas pump. That's the thanks we get for defending them during the Gulf war. The DOJ states that Microsoft is a monopoly and hurts the consumer. Give us all a break and give it up. Have you notice your heating cost lately?? Allen Greenspan should have never been reapointed. He is doing nothing but eroding confidence and instilling fear with investors.Our stock market is suffering from a crisis of confidence and does nothing good for any investments we own It is going to indeed take a change at the next election to rid the ever growing concerns that plague the markets. All you need to do is look at your portfolio and ask yourself if you want it to be left at the hands of this party and Fed chairman for another four years. I don't think so. Frank

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (37964)	2/16/2000 8:20:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

To All: PC Manufacturers and Industry Leaders Demonstrate Incredible Commitment to Windows 2000 Platform newsalert.com

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (37964)	2/16/2000 8:31:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

To All: Buy more if you have the change: In a world of hype, wouldn't it be nice to get a refreshing dose of reality? The truth is out there. It's what real businesses are doing every day. From now until February 17th, you can get your daily dose of reality about the Internet and business computing right here. And then on February 17th, Windows 2000 arrives and reality gets even better. Sun Microsystems claims that software should be free and that Sun solutions are cost effective. The Reality: Sun?s combined hardware and software solutions are typically three times the cost of comparable solutions running the Windows© operating system. The Proof: In TPC-C transaction processing performance tests, Sun?s best E10000 solution cost more than $12 million. Compaq?s Windows-based solution cost less than $4 million and performed within 16 percent of Sun?s benchmark. (Source: TPC) In a comparison of transaction-processing-solution price performance, 88 of the top 100 systems ran on Windows platforms. Only two in the top 100 ran on Sun platforms?the best one ranked 46th. The top 45 all ran on Microsoft© Windows. (Source: TPC tpmCs) The Solaris 8 base operating system will supposedly be free, but it does not include many of Sun's "advanced" features. These will be sold separately at extra cost?making Sun's already expensive hardware solution even more costly. The vast majority of Sun?s Solaris shipments are on Sun?s own expensive, proprietary hardware and Sun has always buried the cost of Solaris in their hardware pricing. Today, a Solaris upgrade for a system with 16 to 32 processors costs $32,000. For a system with 33 to 64 processors, the cost is $90,000. (Source: Sun Online Store) Clustering for a Sun E6500 is $28,000 per node. (Source: TPC filing) Sun?s Solaris Resource Manager costs $40,000 for an E10000 server. (Source: Sun Online Store) The iPlanet Web Server, Sun?s PC file-sharing products, the Sun Management Center, and numerous other enterprise technologies are not included in "free" Solaris. (Source: Sun) Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Microsoft?s server solution for line-of-business and Internet business applications, provides enterprise infrastructure technology. Enterprise Web services, directory service, transaction services, message queuing, resource management, clustering, network load balancing with integrated management, installation, and security are all built into the operating system at no additional charge. Sun Microsystems claims the Solaris 8 operating system is "revolutionary." The Reality: Solaris 8 is an incremental upgrade of Solaris 7, but it still doesn't have all the features of Microsoft© Windows© 2000. The Proof: Solaris 8 lacks many of the advanced features of Windows 2000: Enterprise Web services, centralized consistent administration, application deployment technology, and advanced device support. Although Solaris 7 is touted as Sun?s best 64-bit operating system, 75 percent of Sun customers still choose older, 32-bit versions of Solaris. Even Sun seems to doubt Solaris 7 is the right choice. In its best TPC-C performance tests, Sun used its older Solaris 2.6. (Source: TPC) There is little backing from third-party vendors for Sun hardware and Sun Solaris. A huge base of third-party hardware and system solutions exists for Windows platforms, meaning more choices and competitive prices for customers. JFD