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To: fedhead who wrote (7915)	3/6/1998 2:58:00 PM
From: Don Westermeyer	Respond to of 27307

If you really think Intuit's Quicken is more successful has a better 'brand' name than Microsoft, I suggest you re-evaluate that. Until only recently, Quicken was by far a superior product than MS Money. If anything the opposite is true, Microsoft sell a lot of junk only because it has the Microsoft name associated with it. I think you are probably enthusiastic because you look at the stock price, not the company. YHOO (the stock) will blow out just like 99% of all high-fliers do. At best it is dead money for at least the next three years (if you really do buy and hold).

To: fedhead who wrote (7915)	3/6/1998 3:02:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Respond to of 27307

>>YHOO has the brand name. A year ago, when I told people about this internet company called Yahoo!, most of em thought it was a joke name, and laughed. It only took a year! You're telling me that nobody else can build a brand name in a year. If they offer more services than YHOO and keep it free, they'll win out. And what if someone who already has a valuable brand name (like MSFT) decides they want to beat YHOO at its own game. They've got a heck of a lot more cash to sink into it, and a BETTER brand name to boot. The only protection YHOO has is their tradename. How much is that worth? BTW, my HOME location is set to my.yahoo.com, and their servers are VERY overloaded lately. It's so bad that sometimes I get network timeouts and lose my IP connection. This is not good for their business (advertising revenues). Sooner or later they're bound to have a complete network failure of an hour or more. And it'll be in the news for sure. David