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

To: SunSpot who wrote (44303)	5/4/2000 5:11:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

SS: And what prices of MSFT are too high? Is $89 too much for an O/S? Hmmm, maybe you can buy your copy from the Judge Jackson mystical software discount center. How would you know since your markets are so thin in your country? Everything in Europe costs too much except for food in Germany. JFD

To: SunSpot who wrote (44303)	5/4/2000 5:53:00 PM
From: ProDeath	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

This sort of attitude in IT departments is frequently a holdover of the low-skill DP shop mentality which IBM so successfully nurtured and exploited in the 70s and 80s. The same perennially clueless dorks who used to mouth the words "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" have simply added Microsoft to their mantra. This is compounded by a new generation of simpletons who frequently only know computing through Windows and thus have grossly distorted and greatly diminished expectations of computing technology. I recently saw a PC newsletter in which the author was singing the praises of rebooting your Windows 98 computer at least once a day, telling his readers how great things were when this practice was followed. These sort of idiots don't have clue number one and should be interned in re-education camps, yet they frequently make their way into IT departments at surprising levels of authority. This is often justified by cost arguments, notwithstanding that Windows has the highest total cost of ownership of any computing "architecture" ( if something built by tying together bits and pieces of flaky standalone software with baling wire and chewing gum can be termed an architecture ) available today, and has brought overall system reliability and availability down to levels not seen since the 60s. In essence, many IT shops heard the siren's song of "ease of use", equated this with low costs, found it an easy sell to their hapless users, made a horrifically bad decision and are now in the position of trying to control the cost of that bad decision. At this point in time nearly everyone who took this course and is capable of thinking outside the box recognizes the error, whether or not they publicly acknowledge it. The quiet mass movement to a thin-client application architecture is paving the way for a world in which Windows is optional and computing costs can be brought under control.