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

To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (50210)	9/28/2000 2:54:10 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

The 'evil underside' is more of a karmic issue. --- MS has been selling it's beta software for so long; over the time all of the 'good stuff' was in development, that MS marketing has given MS engineering a 'reputation'. --- What you call beta I think is what a lot of other folks call 'alpha'. --- My original point though, was that if it weren't for MS marketing/policy, the engineers wouldn't actually CHOOSE to run a large site on NT/IIS instead of *nix/Apache. -JCJ