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

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (47331)	6/28/2000 4:11:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

--Name one innovation. -- DirectX. andy

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (47331)	6/28/2000 4:31:00 PM
From: alydar	Respond to of 74651

Lets take the emotion out of this. 1. MSFT has been convicted of by a federal judge and the crimes they have committed were against competitors within the computer industry. 2. ORCL happens to be a competitor to MSFT so you can deduct that possibly one or more of these crimes has been performed against ORCL. Even though they had been victemized, they chose the more political rout and had someone investigate exactly what the heck was/is going on. It would have been worse if ORCL employees were found snooping around MSFT influencial alliances. 3. This is no big deal. Almost every large multi-billion dollar company uses private investigators. If MSFT's expense report were shown, I would bet alot of money predicting that they have used p.i.'s. 3. By the way, ORCL announced today that they are bundling more software with their widely use Oracle 8i database. They are following MSFT's playbook to the tee. The main difference is that ORCL has publicly stated that they want to be charged by DOJ as a monopolist. MSFT has chosen this high honor, upon who it is only bestowed to few, to fight on and thus hurting themselves. Thanks, Bob.