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

To: Logos who wrote (8297)	6/4/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	Respond to of 74651

Fear of Microsoft -Innovation vs Marketing A Item from MacOS Rumors, 6-4-98. "Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 5 developer release, prepares "Gotcha" Everyone knew it was coming. Microsoft's Internet Explorer "gotcha," where it would begin sharply deviating from the other Web standards, now that it has "embraced" them. It's time to "extend" them -- in ways that will work only in Microsoft browsers. According to sources, IE 5.0 will add a plethora of Dynamic HTML (a 4.0-browser-only standard of advanced in-HTML features) features that will work only in IE 5. These advancements will require that Web developers adopt IE-only development, and with Microsoft's OS market share leverage, the company is expected to release the complete suite of content-creation tools, based on its FrontPage line, to be the "first and best" HTML design application capable of making pages that will take advantage of the IE 5-only capabilities. Netscape sources report that they do not expect to support IE 5's non-standard DHTML, and instead plan to focus on surpassing Internet Explorer's other speed and feature advantages with Mozilla 5.0 -- hopefully, they say, leaving Web developers to drop IE-only support for wider compatibility." This is the sort of rumor the other camp's fears feed upon. Sounds a lot like a parallel to the Java thing. FYI Hal

To: Logos who wrote (8297)	6/4/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Logos, I read it last year in a news.com article on the web. Sorry, I can't be more explicit. You can check the benchmarks by contacting SUNW & CPQ sales & marketing departments.

To: Logos who wrote (8297)	6/4/1998 7:01:00 PM
From: mozek	Respond to of 74651

Logos, You're right. I'll post some data with corroborating 3rd party links later. I've gotta run now. Thanks, Mike

To: Logos who wrote (8297)	6/4/1998 7:42:00 PM
From: Punko	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

This might help you with your research: sun.com Note that it's an old PR...the world has changed since then, and no doubt Sun can do better today

To: Logos who wrote (8297)	6/4/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: J Krnjeu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Mr. Logos, I've worked on DEC Alpha's and currently working on SUN 6000's. The SUN's have 12 CPU's and 12 gig of memory supporting 500 users running 1 Oracle database. I worked on a DEC Alpha 400 Server running 1 400mhz CPU with 2 gig memory supporting 120 users and 10 Oracle databases. The DEC was so fast that we brought an Alpha NT box. A 3rd party installer said that he had never seen a box run that fast. He installed the software in half the time that was schedule. He did work on HPs and SUNs. Thank you JK