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

To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (41883)	4/12/2000 2:56:00 PM
From: lawdog	Respond to of 74651

GT - you should look at it.

To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (41883)	4/12/2000 2:57:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Goodyear You might see this, however: "GoodYear posts record 1st quarter revenue as their InterNet sales soared from bidding auctions for tires. In a separate announcement, Goodyear purchased two small InterNet infracture companies to improve their business-InterNet Consumer and B2B offerings for their next 5-year business planning period." Not probable but possible. This will happen, however, with several "dirt" companies as they re-invent themselves.

To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (41883)	4/12/2000 6:14:00 PM
From: lawdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

OT OT: Goodyear Tire: This is why you should take a look at GT. Goodyear Profit More Than Doubles Apr 12 5:26pm ET AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (GT.N), the world's largest tire company, on Wednesday said its first-quarter profits more than doubled, topping Wall Street estimates partly because of an improved performance by its North American and Latin American tire businesses. The Akron, Ohio-based company said profits rose to $63.6 million, or 40 cents per diluted share, from $25.5 million, or 16 cents, in the same period a year earlier. Analysts on average were looking for Goodyear to earn 35 cents a share in the latest quarter, according to First Call/Thomson Financial, which tracks such estimates. The numbers were released after the market closed, when Goodyear was down 1/16 at 29 on the New York Stock Exchange. First-quarter sales rose to $3.54 billion from $2.99 billion. Goodyear's stock, which has been penalized for sluggish earnings for the past year or so, had rallied on Monday after the company's chairman and chief executive, Samir Gibara, gave an upbeat forecast for the company.

To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (41883)	4/12/2000 6:35:00 PM
From: Catcher	Respond to of 74651

appreciate your post...needed to laugh out loud. after all it's only money do ya really think msft might outperform clorox in the long run?

To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (41883)	4/13/2000 7:20:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

According to some smart people, in the future companies will no longer center around a technology, but around image. There's a long way from Caterpillar boots to caterpillar vehicles, from Marlborough clothes to Marlborough cigarettes, from Microsoft Mice to Microsoft Windows 2000 or from IBM MRAM to IBM OS/2. Goodyear might have had a good year :-) but don't rely on low-tech companies to stay low-potential. A company like Sony, that is known for their cassette players (!) might in five years become a leading supplier of home computer equipment, setting standards for all kinds of software and be the market platform for software used at home. It's only a possibility, but it's there. Did you know, that Nokia is a tire-producer like Goodyear? Would you believe Goodyear to become a leading mobile phone producer? Pirelly, who is also known for tires, is much into opto-electronics and optical fibres... Renault makes cars, cognac and peppermills. Renault peppermills are very good and renowned for their quality. (I will not talk about their cars - there might be renault car owners on the list...) Microsoft isn't that big because they made some software. Making software is NOT Microsoft's primary business, just like flying aeroplanes is not the primary business of British Airways. The primary business of british airways is to sell tickets and arrange flights, no matter who operates the planes. And the primary business of Microsoft is to provide, sell software and coordinate it into a product portfolio. Doing this right, software is not the only place to make money.