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

To: alydar who wrote (51897)	10/20/2000 6:08:54 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Bob - yea, that was a good call on the stock price. I'm not sure where Business Week's information about Ballmer's attitude came from. I attended various briefings over the 18 months preceding the launch of .NET at which Ballmer presented some of the ideas and discussed the issues around the business case. There were several initiatives - Windows DNA, and Next Generation Windows Services, and COM++, and some others, all of which ended up under .NET. Ballmer laid out the general case for the 4 pillars of .NET at a briefing for channel partners in fall of 1999, and they were essentially unchanged at the launch. I didn't see anyone from Business Week at any of the earlier events, but then I'm not sure I would have known what to look for. But the notion that Ballmer was not on board with the concepts early on is just wrong, based on personal experience.