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

To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (47877)	7/17/2000 3:03:03 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

These people are out of their mind desperate. --- Nothing is going to galvanize the nix community and the Java community faster than this vapor. --- First this (anything but Java) .WAD thing and now ...what?! --- MS is way behind in the ASP space (as is the bandwidth to be fair), but as yet, MS hasn't been able to articulate even a single plan for a decent vaporous press release. The last I heard they were going to RENT Office. --- What's important and what this article misses is that MS has lost the developer mindshare they once owned. While they have a monopoly on the desktop OS, they have lost the tools thing. .WAD is an attempt to win some of that back, but by excluding Java development and alienating free *nix developers, they're actually shooting one foot and then the other. --- Want to get an idea of where developer's heads are at? Go to Amazon and search the top selling books for Java and compare the sales rankings to Visual Basic and whatnot. It's not even close. Then there;s the Gnu tools (Linux). IMO, MS doesn't have much hope of catching up with EITHER. --- Having said that, Linux has already made Windows irrelevant, and it wasn't much to do with 'tools'. -JCJ