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

To: margie who wrote (60685)	8/17/2001 12:04:25 PM
From: alydar	Respond to of 74651

we need leadership. might expect a some good earnings from orcl next month and new leadership will come into tech. without leadership we will be like moses in the desert. i'm sure we all agree that we do not want to wandering around for 40 years. rocky.

To: margie who wrote (60685)	8/17/2001 12:04:38 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 74651

Club for Growth? Sounds like another MSFT funded organization. Maybe it should be called the Club for MSFT Growth. From the Wall Street Journal The appeals court upheld Judge Jackson's finding that Microsoft is a predatory monopolist, but dismissed his plan to break up the company, leaving that task to a new district court judge. ... Microsoft said that if the appeals court didn't put the case in hold, it would put the public's faith in the judicial system in jeopardy. The appeals court unanimously disagreed. "Microsoft has failed to demonstrate any substantial harm that would result from the reactivation of proceedings in the district court," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled. "It appears that Microsoft has misconstrued our opinion, particularly with respect to what would have been required to justify vacating the district court's findings of fact and conclusions of law," the court wrote. The court ruled that the case should be returned to a lower court in seven days, where a new judge will be picked at random. The judge will decide how Microsoft should be penalized for its anticompetitive practices. RNWK will be the next victim if the law is not enforced. A pro-growth agenda is a level playing field and enforcement of the law. cnnfn.cnn.com

To: margie who wrote (60685)	8/17/2001 12:43:17 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

A few weeks ago people here expected the Appeals Court and political forces to ride in on a white horse and rescue their beloved Microsoft. Now that both have gone against the monopolist, they're being called "clueless." How objective is that? And didn't you folks say that was a victory in the Appeals Court? Have you changed your mind? JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: margie who wrote (60685)	8/17/2001 12:56:03 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Sun should be worrying about improving itself, instead of focusing on litigation. McSquealy's stupid MSFT fixation has cost SUNW and will continue to do so. Any company that focuses on whining to the government instead of taking care of business is a loser. SUNW is going down a lot further, IMO, and I will shed no tears. Politicians like Schumer should be trying to help the economy recover, not contribute to its decline; their very rich constituents like AOL-Time Warner are doing just fine. Schumer is a Democrat and it should surprise no one that he acts like one. When the GOP (and dweebs like Kenneth Starr of ProCompetitors) attack the free market principles that the party supposedly stands for, they're setting themselves up to reassume minority status as pale "me, too" Democrat Lite wannabe's. AOL is a clueless conglomerate that doesn't seem to realize that running to the DOJ is, in reality, shooting themselves in the foot. If those morons had any brains, they'd be backing MSFT's business practices on principle. "Bush Needs a Pro-Growth Agenda -- ASAP" Dubya seems to want to be a one term President...

To: margie who wrote (60685)	8/18/2001 2:11:55 AM
From: David Freidenberg	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

*"The more aggressively Justice pursues Microsoft, the lower the Nasdaq and computer-related tech stocks fall."* Why does our government seemingly want to destroy the tech industry? An Orwellian Tale, taken with a grain of salt: Scorned techies and other microscopic thinkers, in their antipathy for MSFT, unwittingly aligned with a government who's only desire was to control information technology. The PC had become too powerful to remain in individuals' hands. It threatened government television as the primary mode of idea dissemination. The government wisely used the emerging content giant (AOL) and network server giant (SUNW) to dismantle the personal computing platform standard. It was a successful bipartisan effort, thanks to the support of citizen groups known as Tutts and Daves. And that's why the two knobs on the Citizen Data Distribution Terminal, which we all know and love, are to this day called Tutt and Dave. The End. <g>

To: margie who wrote (60685)	8/18/2001 4:07:40 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Margie- For eight years the Wall Street Journal was condemming Clinton as morally repugnant but they didn't dare make one peep about how the economy was being run as all their publications were fat with juicy ads. Now six months into their boy's presidency they're about as thick as my school's paper and they yell bloody murder, fix this, change that. XP isn't going to do a darn thing for the tech industry. Anyone betting otherwise is asking for disappointment. The economy is going through the ringer and it will be quite a while before anything comes out the other end. That said. Sit back, relax and let the courts unravel Microsoft's monopoly. For a few days it was refreshing to see the AOL deals for screen space until Microsoft squelched them. When the final decree is in effect there will be no more squelching and the box makers will be able to use creativity to make more sales than the other guy. The builder who puts up a supermarket doesn't get to tell their customer what to stock on the shelves. In a while neither will Microsoft. Harvey