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

To: James Fink who wrote (5678)	4/3/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

To all: Will SUN learn to really innovate and get products to market that consumers want as the pace of technology picks up? If SUN and other's cannot keep up with MSFT how can they slow MSFT down? Attempt to SUE? HOW THE 'PC KILLER' WAS HUMBLED Slow machines and cheap rivals undercut network computers When Otto K. Folprecht first heard about slimmed-down desktop machines called network computers (NCs) two years ago, he was jazzed. The information-systems manager at steel-products maker Tree Island Industries Ltd. in Vancouver, B.C., hoped to slash his computing costs 30% by replacing as many as 400 PCs with simpler, cheaper machines from Sun Microsystems Inc. But after more than a year's delay, he ditched Sun and bought terminals running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows programs off a central computer. Says Folprecht: ''I would have hoped for something from Sun a lot sooner.'' businessweek.com MICROSOFT IS THE VICTIM OF A LEGAL MUGGING There is no antitrust case against Microsoft. What is happening is that Sun Microsystems, Netscape Communications, and Novell are trying to achieve through antitrust politics what they could not achieve in the marketplace. Economists have known for decades that antitrust is what losers do to winners. businessweek.com