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

To: werefrog who wrote (6403)	5/1/1998 5:42:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Very good stance on the part of the high tech industry. The full text is found at the link below. In the long run SUNW's little gambit is going to come back and bite them in the gluteus maximus. Tech Execs Fear Win98 Suit Wired News Report 5:00am 1.May.98.PDT A collection of the heaviest hitters in the US technology industry have written a letter to the Department of Justice warning prosecutors of the dire economic consequences of taking any action against Microsoft Corp. that would delay the release of its Windows 98 operating system. The signers of the extraordinary letter, released by Microsoft Thursday, told the department that interfering with the scheduled 25 June release of the new operating system would seriously harm their businesses and have an adverse impact on the lives of millions of American workers and consumers. The missive, released in the wake of reports that a coalition of state attorneys general would file suit to block Windows 98, was signed by 26 senior technology executives, including Andy Grove of Intel, Michael Dell of Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard's Lewis E. Platt, Eckhardt Pfeiffer of Compaq, Gordon Eubanks of Symantec, and W.J. Sanders III of Advanced Micro Devices. wired.com On the heels of this article in last month's Wired Magazine, BW has MSFT down as internet play, as if we had not already realized that. The Televisionspace Race Forget the browser. (Bill Gates has.) Microsoft wants to be in the box. by Frank Rose wired.com

To: werefrog who wrote (6403)	5/1/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

The Senate panel is not being "up-front about the fact that they want the same letter [Microsoft provided the Justice Department] but they are not offering the same protection," Cullinan said. In a March 26 letter to Microsoft, four members of the Judiciary Committee acknowledged they work under different rules. "Procedural rules governing the Justice Department's handling of commercially sensitive information do not, of course, apply to the Judiciary Committee," wrote panel chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in the letter. "We are, however, sensitive to the interests of Microsoft, and its contractual partners, in protecting the confidentiality of such information. We therefore would like to minimize the extent to which such sensitive information is provided to the Committee and, at the same time, provide adequate protection for any sensitive information the Committee might receive," the letter states. Microsoft provided documents for inspection in a so-called "clean room," where they could be reviewed but not copied, Cullinan said. Lopatto said that access to documents did not constitute a response to the committee request. "First of all, . . . we didn't ask them for documents," she said, noting the committee wanted the letter to free OEMs up to cooperate with the panel's probe. "They've offered to allow us to review documents. The documents they were going to make available were generic documents," Lopatto said, and not actual contracts themselves.