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

To: johnd who wrote (54865)	1/4/2001 5:04:55 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Check out the Wall Street Journal today. Microsoft is running a full page 5 9's (99.999% uptime) advertisement for Win2k Server. Also an article on Microsoft's "Assault on the Server Market" Brash Sales Boss Leads Microsoft In Its Assault on the Server Market By REBECCA BUCKMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Even in an industry where executives have elevated trash talking to an art form, Microsoft Corp.'s new head of world-wide sales and marketing, Orlando Ayala, stands out. Consider his comment that Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Scott McNealy "can't handle the truth" about the quality of Sun's computer servers. Or his remark that Mr. McNealy's libertarian political views show he must be "smoking pot." (Through a spokeswoman, Mr. McNealy declined to respond.) Clearly, the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft isn't making the company less aggressive as it barrels into new markets. The old-school Mr. Ayala -- whose brashness and blunt talk is reminiscent of the style of his boss, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer -- is launching a no-holds-barred campaign against Sun and Oracle Corp. in the lucrative business of selling high-end servers to big companies. Mr. Ayala promises to "liberate" customers from the "tyranny" of what he calls overpriced machines from his competitors. "We're going to stop taking this goddamn high road," he declared in a recent interview. "We're going to go and compete head on." Continued... interactive.wsj.com (The bold emphasis are mine)

To: johnd who wrote (54865)	1/5/2001 2:29:51 AM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: "Settlement is being talked by newswires again." John do you have references to who, what, when were and how? TTOSBT

To: johnd who wrote (54865)	1/6/2001 6:45:32 AM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 74651

Re: "Settlement is being talked by newswires again." No settlements in sight. The case goes on. Justice Department Picks Team For Microsoft Appeals Arguments By MARK WIGFIELD Dow Jones Newswires WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department named the two attorneys who will be arguing its case in Microsoft Corp.'s appeal of the antitrust case against it. Arguing for Justice will be Jeffrey P. Minear, 45, senior litigation counsel and assistant to the solicitor general, who has been with Justice since 1983. He has argued 40 cases before the Supreme Court. Also arguing will be David C. Frederick, 39, assistant to the solicitor general at Justice. A Rhodes scholar, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White from 1991 to 1992. But Justice's famous outside counsel from the trial court phase, David Boies, will only be warming the bench at most. While the Justice Department has requested seating for Mr. Boies during the Feb. 26-27 oral arguments, the agency currently has no further arrangements with him. Justice requested seating for Mr. Boies in what will be a crowded courtroom to preserve his ability to function as a consultant for Justice in the appeal, an official said. Justice has asked for 32 seats in the courtroom. Arguing for Microsoft will be Richard Urowsky, a lead counsel for Sullivan & Cromwell and an expert in economics and antitrust law. Mr. Urowsky successfully defended Microsoft in previous antitrust cases heard by the same court, the U.S. Court of Appeals. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled last April Microsoft violated antitrust laws. In June, Judge Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft as well as other business restrictions, but stayed his order pending appeal. TTOSBT