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

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (18798)	4/28/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

<Exactly what Windows application is required to access and use your web-site?> Excel 97 and in some cases IE 4.0 for the analytics <Apparently because only a browser is required, that makes you a non-viable resource and the New Media game is all hype.> An inaccurate assumption. <I can dial into work from home and use Excel 5.0 through a boring X Windows program from yesteryear.> So, Excel 5.0 is antiquated. <If I could use a browser to run Excel, why would I need a "shrink-wrapped", maintain it myself, pain-in-the-ass software package at home?> You can't use a non-Windows browser to run excel. That's the point. <The future is not in standalone apps. What plans do you have for shrink-wrapping your web-site? Do you even understand or have used network-based software?> Since you asked, I'll tell you. With six megabyte download, one time, self-updating download, you can use my web site to perform very advanced corporate valuation, structured product and derivate valuation and contruction, LBO structuring, M&A analysis and divestiture/consolidation valuation for any private company and any of 6,100 public companies. The app queries and downloads full financial data (IS, BS, CF, etc.) from a 600 meagbyte 15 year historical database located on my server and pulls real time exchange rates for 32 coountries, inflation rates, interest rates and real time share prices from other web databases. There is currently no other type of application that does what this one does, and yes, it was developed from plain old MSFT shrink wrapped software. Bandwith does not support the real time calculation strength required by this type of work, but it is ideal for centralized data retrieval and MSFT will probably be at the forefront of such a move for thier productivity and integrated browsing software makes the ideal front end. No retraining is required and nearly everybody already has it. <How is logging onto a spreadsheet server different than logging onto a stock trading program? Of those 10,000 apps, how many could not be done effectively over the Internet with the browser as a client? How many could have parts successfully rewritten in Java for use on a browser?> See my previous answer. Log on to riskview.com (Java and NSCP tech champs) and see how long it takes you to do a simple analysis, which has to be reloaded every visit and cannot support the customization that an Excel/VBA/IE solution does.