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To: High-Tech East who wrote (5835)11/29/1997 1:13:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
I would be quite surprised to see a settlement announced before Friday in either the Sun or DOJ suit against Microsoft. MSFT stock hasn't suffered much, if at all, as a result of either suit, and I don't think they'd see much benefit to settling (a million dollars a day notwithstanding). I think MSFT had plenty of advance warning of the likelihood of the Sun suit and made their decision to fight (unless Sun were to back down, and I don't consider that likely -- why would they?).

JMHO, of course.



To: High-Tech East who wrote (5835)11/29/1997 2:28:00 PM
From: uu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
Hi Ken:

> We have a small amount of snow and ice on the ground here
> (suburban Boston). Thanksgiving morning it was 30 degrees with
> winds gusting to 55 mph. Brrrrrr!


I do envy you for the snow! I used to live in Minneapolis, Minnesota for over 11 years before moving to California in 89. I have not seen snow (or real cold for that matter) for 8 years now! Thanksgiving and Christmas without the snow are sort of like wearing a fancy suit without a tie (or bow tie for that matter!)! Glad you had a great thanksgiving, mine was also perhaps the best (even without the snow)!

Regards,

Addi Jamshidi



To: High-Tech East who wrote (5835)11/29/1997 8:55:00 PM
From: Thomas Haegin  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 64865
 
Why doesn't MSFT embrace Java and bring out "Visual Java". OK, maybe they couldn't control all the standards, but they couldn't do that with C/C++ either. Or could they?

Bill should also consider that embracing Java will bring him a lot of goodwill in the IT public and "Visual Java" would sell like crazy because it's from MSFT.

I just don't see MSFT as a big loser here. Settlement with SUNW would make sense to me.

Thomas