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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SteveC who wrote (29961)	4/3/2000 7:14:00 PM
From: SteveC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun is on the attack. Once the market figures out what the court's order may mean for Sun, the stock should take off. From Sun's press release: As the case advances to the remedies stage, Sun believes that only a combination of stringent structural and behavioral remedies will ensure that Microsoft can no longer stifle competition through the abuse of its monopoly power. Specifically, Sun believes that: Microsoft's past conduct demonstrates that behavioral remedies alone will not be enough to foster true competition and innovation in the market. The only sure way to curtail Microsoft's monopoly in the PC operating systems market is with a structural approach in which Microsoft's applications and Internet content businesses are divested as separate companies and the remaining operating systems business is divided into three distinct and competing companies. Microsoft must be forbidden from using its massive cash hoard to kill competition through minority, majority and IP technology investments. The company must be prohibited from using its ill-gotten gains to buy its way into new markets and lock in new customers. The technology standards playing field must be leveled so that any company can create products that will successfully interoperate with Microsoft's ubiquitous operating systems and products. This solution would require Microsoft to publish its programming interfaces openly and freely. Microsoft must be required to make its pricing public and nondiscriminatory so that it cannot be used as illegal leverage. Microsoft must be prohibited from entering into exclusive or preclusive agreements that require its PC OEM customers and Internet Access Providers to do business only with Microsoft or prohibit its customers from doing any business with a Microsoft competitor.