Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Norman Hwu who wrote (18162)	3/25/1998 5:04:00 AM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

[When a company wipe out all competitors, without any innovative products in a short period. It is absolutely something wrong] What you are overlooking is NT. Just 4 years ago the industry laughed at NT, saying there was no way MSFT could build a competitive server side business before 2005. Now, many if not most analysts have NT winning 50% of the $20B server market in the next 3 years. That's a DOUBLE of MSFTs entire revenue on new NT Server business ALONE. And that doesn't factor in the momentum of NT on the desktop where it is growing far faster than earlier predictions. Part of this is brand new money replacing Unix workstations. Part of it is better money from replacing Windows9x with a higher end product at 3 times the cost. MSFT has succeeded in their oft-stated goal of obsoleting their own products before someone else does. Any other company that achieved the above would be enjoying a similar surge in profitability and influence.

To: Norman Hwu who wrote (18162)	3/25/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: jim shiau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>Borland, Corel, Lotus,WordPerfect, Novell, SPC, Netscape, Apple, Next ... without any innovative products in a short period. It is absolutely something wrong. Why all those company falling down like a rock even they still ship good quality products. The common thing is they do not control both OS and application markets. As I know, Apple controls everything including OS, application market, and even hardwares (PC, printer, scanner, network cards, etc), but it failed by shooting its own feet.

To: Norman Hwu who wrote (18162)	3/25/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>If you think people in the above companies are stupid and short-sight. Why Microsoft still try to hire those no-brain such as Andrew of WFC. Many engineers in above companies are brilliant, but the company is run by the management. That is a big difference. YuanQing,