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

To: alydar who wrote (51805)	10/20/2000 11:06:43 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Bob - I'll take a stab at .NET in 100 words or less. ************* MSFT built its value by empowering end users as a way to end run the centralized systems of the 1980s. The Internet is another opportunity to create value and disrupt the resurgent trend towards centralization being driven by their competitors. They intend to create an infrastructure supporting development and deployment to the Internet as a platform, built around 4 pillars. 1) direct person-to-person interaction 2) easily accessed "building block" services 3) distributed "back end" support at the edge of the web 4) development environment (the .NET framework) making complex web systems as easy as applications for current industry standard systems ******* and that's my 100 words...

To: alydar who wrote (51805)	10/20/2000 11:11:11 AM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

1. Yes, MSFT has almost been halved from the high. It hasn't been flying high except for the last 2 days. 2. I also believe that Microsoft hasn't clearly articulated what the .Net strategy is and how it will make money. That is also in part because, it is a huge enterprise full of risks. The more one says about it, the more daunting it seems. I know you are not interested, but look at microsoft.com for bunch of information. To me as an end-user, .Net means - I can access any available information in the world when and where I want. Then use it to empower myself. Everything else springs from that. You know, actually, information at your fingertips - is what .Net is all about, IMHO. I don't know if msft will deliver on this. But I would sure like to see that happen.