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

To: rudedog who wrote (48253)	7/28/2000 9:09:06 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't think Compaq is setting a standard to which Sun aspires, either. And looking at the two as investments, I'm sure glad. The Sun benchmark IS showing its age -- as they say, stay tuned. You're still holding back on me. <g> What's "the next generation platform" as seen by the big M? Are they going to focus on gaming machines? Handhelds? Cellphones? Automobiles? Voice activated lightswitches? (If you've got an NDA problem, I'll understand.) JMHO.

To: rudedog who wrote (48253)	7/29/2000 7:52:23 AM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 74651

Comon guys - we're walking to the internet age. "Server OS" and "Desktop OS" are funny words that you had in marketing in the late 80's and early 90's. The only real desktop OS must be Windows CE - good for thin clients. A server is a piece of software, like Microsoft file sharing, Microsoft Netmeeting, the game Microsoft Hearts, most games for LANs etc. all running nicely on Windows 95. Microsoft put out some products that were intended to be easy to put to market. The difference between NT Workstation and NT Server is how they were tuned and which tools were included. But in fact, I use Windows 2000 Server as a desktop (with a thin client). Think about that. Now that everybody in Denmark seems to get their own IP address on their ADSL line, everybody has a server on which they work, play games and surf the internet... This Desktop/Server distinction really screws up more peoples thinking than it is good for.