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

To: David Howe who wrote (72142)	8/12/2002 4:31:04 PM
From: jonkai	Respond to of 74651

Interesting that the past month's chart shows MSFT as the only company gaining share, while all others show their share falling. again, as i said, MSFT bought a whole bunch of server farms that are going out of business with a whole bunch of inactive websites..... and converting them...... so that these inactive sites are showing gains... but nobody cares about these, they don't produce any money, for anyone, least of all MSFT..... the active websites are the ones that have to pay somebody for equipment, instead of MSFT donating equipment for a site that isn't anything more than a name..... and active websites are showing MSFT loses of market share...... because websites are interested in saving money, and having better up time to boot..... if AOL had the same servers as MSN, it would have as bad an uptime as MSN, and this would cost them money...... MSN doesn't care because it always loses money, MSFT is an expert at losing money in markets with competition..... notice the average AOL solaris server uptime uptime.netcraft.com compared to the average MSFT server uptime... uptime.netcraft.com AOL's average uptime would be even higher if this chart didn't show that IRIX server that AOL apparently experimented with for a month.... and this is just one of thousands of websites that found out that they can make more money with better uptime, by not being on MSFT servers....... hence the MSFT loss of market share..... the code red worm just made it that much more obvious how much money sites were losing by being on MSFT servers....