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To: alydar who wrote (50599)	7/23/2002 8:59:29 AM
From: alydar	Respond to of 64865

if msft does not issue a dividend or major stock repurchase program the stock will go down. if it does do one of the above the stock will go up and msft shareholder will make money. can anyone here argue with that? i would love to hear some feedback:). ahh, a monopolistic dividend play. anyone want to drag up some of my old posts regarding this topic:)? rocky.

To: alydar who wrote (50599)	7/23/2002 10:10:26 AM
From: Humblefrank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

>msft=.net, orcl=ebusiness suite, sunw=sunw one, ibm=mishmash. so what are you talking about?< What do any of these things mean? They're just marketing. Anyway, ibm is doing better than Sun in Java. Visual Age and Websphere are far more popular than Sun one, so much so that Sun decided to give their software away to compete. I can tell you as a developer that once you chose a server you don't want to flip to another one. Nobody uses .net yet. BEA is also bigger than Sun in server software. Java seems to be here to stay, but it's pretty sad Sun can't even dominate it, although it does make it more likely IBM would buy Sun or Sun buying BEA.