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

To: keithsha who wrote (59979)	7/18/2001 1:32:02 AM
From: _scar_face_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Yes MSFT is the real innovator, Sun is a follower. The proof is in code not paper specs and press releases.>> A follower? Now thats a compliment! A whiner, litigator, purchaser of innovation [the sin!], a body fully arrogant and self righteous is more apropos [as displayed here with our friends charles tutt, mr balboa of rocky fame and dave with the consumer in mind during their financially self interested rants]. Just why sheep invest out of pure hatred...speaks for itself. Some are of sound judgement though Message 16089058 At least this investor doesnt have his eyes shut. So there IS hope amongst them through deliverance from hardware. I agree, XP is the answer.

To: keithsha who wrote (59979)	7/18/2001 5:05:35 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft hasn't innovated much: MSFT OBDC came after the far better industry standard IDAPI. MSFT ASP came after Perl scripts had been used for a long time. MST ADSI - It looks pretty much like Novell's Active Directory to me. MSFT MSMQ - nice but that technology was known and used before. MSFT MTS - Oh - you mean the technology that makes unstable software more stable :-) MSFT MSXML - I can do most of that in standard pascal with writeln (). Please don't call this an innovation. It's just a bunch of algorithms following the XML standard. In fact, the standard mentions that a graduate programmer should be able to write an standard-compliant XML parser within 2 days. In this world, all computer engineers use each other's knowledge and mostly only develop stuff, we don't invent stuff. Things that you could easily convince me that MSFT invented, though, is: - Business models for software. - Marketing methods for software. - The office assistant. - Microsoft Bob (never found out what that really was). - A 32-bit text editor that is only capable of reading 64kbyte files. (notepad.exe in Win95/98). Lars.