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

To: J Krnjeu who wrote (10238)	8/23/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

That's the point ... I believe most IT professionals will tell you that Unix and Linux are much easier and cheaper to administer than Windows 95/98/NT. Don't get me wrong. I'm not shorting MSFT. The biggest operating system in the business of engineering has always been some flavor of UNIX. OK maybe Vax VMS in the bad old days. NT may be good enough for word processing and spreadsheets but there are bigger jobs being processed out there. And running UNIX and Linux from top to bottom in the enterprise might make perfect sense to some businesses. Maybe businesses on Wall Street or in e-commerce with large databases. (Microsoft Access reminds me of a steamy pile of excrement.) I'm not saying it IS a steamy pile of excrement ... it just reminds me of one. Best of luck to MSFT. I'm just trying to tell people there are faster AND better AND cheaper operating systems out there. I'm sure I go over like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl in Redmond. I just wish their software was as "innovative" as their contracts. NT will get better and better. UNIX has had 40 years (?) to evolve. I just don't accept out of hand that NT will take over the world. It simply isn't good enough yet in my opinion. If you can run Microsoft Office With Wabi 2.2 on Linux who needs Windows? I'm not telling Microsoft anything. They run HotMail with Solaris if I'm not mistaken. Saying that "Business is not going (to) risk their job on some free software" is kind of eerie. It's reminiscent of people saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". I believe free open source software called Apache is on more web servers than any other software. People must be risking their jobs on "free software". Enough rambling for now. I'm not going to convert anyone. I respect other views. Thanks for the post. Best of luck.