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

To: David Howe who wrote (62925)	11/12/2001 6:44:50 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

No way. Linux doesn't fight on commercial premises. Eazel showed that quite well - even though the company is long bankrupt and gone, the product lives on and improves all the time. The evolution in Linux will continue no matter what, just has it has been since 1991. But if Microsoft really wants to fight on the OS and Office market, they will have to improve their existing products a lot and they will have to offer many more versions of the same products. And I don't believe they will succeed as long as Microsoft Office is more than $100. OS/2, AOL, SUNW, Palm are all commercial companies and products. Please don't compare that to Linux. Linux has the first mover's advantage. Open source was invented before Microsoft was founded. ;-) Lars.