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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (48163)	7/26/2000 8:31:43 AM
From: Epics	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

three weeks ago TLXN was out of favor Subject 8448 Today it was taken over. MSFT is the same way right now. They wont be taken over but I expect a fundamentals rally to the mid 70's

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (48163)	7/26/2000 4:05:28 PM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 74651

Sorry, Bill, you didn't get it. I didn't say "a better server than Linux", but "a better Linux than Linux". Sun can run industry standard, non-proprietary software on their OS with no performance hit, like Apache. Apache and most other Linux/Unix software does not run well on Windows. Since Linux is not much about the work of Linux Thorvalds, but more the work of the GNU project, Sun can benefit greatly of the progress of Linux. I mean, a Linux/Unix webdesigner doesn't have to care about whether it is Sun, FreeBSD, Linux or HP Unix. It just works. A market with free competition, that finally got united due to the GNU project. There is no money in just selling a Unix-like OS or a web-server today. What you have to sell is a product that improves the standard products. That's what Microsoft does, and that's what Sun does. But Sun does not need a Sun Webserver, a Sun mail system, a Sun database server etc., it runs perfectly with free software. Windows doesn't. I just helped some guys to put up a game server for the game called "Counter-Strike" on a Linux. It definitely runs much better on Linux than Windows NT or Windows 2000! Microsoft's right to exists lies in the integration of their software, which improves more and more and shuts out more and more competitors from the Windows platform. Nobody has the money to develop on Windows anymore, even hardware drivers for Windows 2000 are obviously so expensive to develop, that much new multimedia hardware isn't available for Windows 2000. Windows is becoming more and more a Microsoft everywhere platform, and competitors who want their share of the market turn their eyes to the group of Linux compatible OS's like Solaris, BSD etc. Microsoft is close to be back to the days of Commodore 64, where all the installed software was made by Microsoft. They just make a whole lot of more money on it.