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To: Zoro who wrote (31701)	5/9/2000 11:49:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

Me, too. <g> I heard a variation of an old Wall Street aphorism on TV last night: "Don't try to catch a falling piano." <gg>

To: Zoro who wrote (31701)	5/9/2000 11:52:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 64865

Tuesday May 9, 11:06 am Eastern Time Forbes.com Ellison Backs Another Microsoft Competitor By Lisa DiCarlo biz.yahoo.com <snip> Ellison and pal Scott McNealy, chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW - news), have made it their business (usually through biting shtick at large industry conferences or press gatherings) to ridicule Gates and denounce every product ever built by Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news). An arguably noble endeavor, but it has degenerated into a ``pissing contest'' that has lost sight of what the consumer really needs, according to Roger Kay of International Data Corp. These guys are ``peripherally concerned with the end-user experience but only insofar as it aids their Machiavellian games,'' he says. <snip>