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Technology Stocks : Will SUNW bring down MSFT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Normandi who wrote (803)	11/5/1997 5:09:00 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 878

Norman, Thanks for the link I read the artcile in that URL. I think that guy is as biased towards MSFT as any paid MSFT crony will be. A few points to ponder: 1) WINDOWS 95 success is a myth. Wrong assumption. Who made this assumption? He made it to himself to write a neat sectiion on what his biased view has been. You take a crappy product and monolpolistic market muscle and spend 200million dollar on advertisemnt, what will you get? Obvious MSFT's Detriot strategy worked well. You create a hype and shove it down the throat with the ulterior motive that they will replace that within a another year or two. 2) That guy claims to have read all JAVA books. It must be a joke. He doesn't even bother to a mention a few standard books leave alone reading all the book. 3) He speaks as though he knows all about Windows API. I have a friend who was part of a company that had source code level access and he said that MSFT will give you API and will explain "almost all the options" for the parameters but "not all". You have to do a lot of trial and error before you could figure that out. That is one slimmy way of killing competition IMHO. Anothe standard answer you get this is a beta version and will get a better one later. 4) He claims that Wondows to NT is a smooth way of transitioning from 16 bits to 32 bits. That must be a joke. Just ask this question: What would have been lost had thay just developed NT (both desk top and server version) instead of milking Windows 95 in between. Now, MSFT thought that Windows 9* has no future and added Explorer as a feature enhancement. Hope justice department is right this time. Lot of companies (including mine where mo]ore than 6000 people work) waited for more than a year fully knowing MSFT's slimmy strategy of using WINDOWs 95 to milk before NT just kept quite and now that are upgrading to NT where needed. I am curious that guy did n't even give a background about himself and how he makes living. He now claims himself that his URL is being refered by MSFT. In summary there are a few valid points but great many of them are based on wrong assumptions and limited knowledge. -Karun