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

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (10244)	8/24/1998 2:43:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Well, from DOS to Window is a completely different story, you switched from a non friendly system to a friendly one.From Win3.1 to Win95 is another story, from Win3.1 to Win95 is an upgrade , basically the new product came from the same company, and I do not have a problem of confidence on the upgrade. It is nice that Linux can run faster, but with CPU getting faster and faster, it really does not matter at all, and I can not probably even feel the speed improvementl. The issue is with win OS , I am sure that I can easily find any application programs which support Win OS, but for Linux, I am not so sure. Besides, if I switch to Linunix, what should I do with those application programs which can run on window ? Should I throw them all into the garbage can ? Or should I spend another thousands of dollars to buy those similar application programs which can run with Linuix if I can find any in the market at all ? That is what I called inconvenience . A good product is one thing, I marketable product with business sense is another . I think you are just too engineering minded We all know propane powered car is clean, the problem is it is difficult to find a gas station which sells propane. So, should I buy a car powered with propane , which will give me a lot of headache to find a propane gas station ? I do not think so. Of course, If you have the time to learn Linuix OS , and have interest in this new OS, no one can prevent you to get a copy of it. It is your freedom of choice. But from application point of view, it just does not make sense.

To: nommedeguerre who wrote (10244)	8/24/1998 3:01:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Another thing I would like to discuss here is the WAR between NT and UNIX. For years we all know that UNIX is hard to learn , and all kids grow up with PCs, i.e with window, the first OS they learn at home and at school is Window, and few people learn UNIX unless for professional need. So, if NT is a product as good as UNIX, most people will choose NT, since NT had most of the features of window, which most people learned when they first used computers. There is no reason for me to learn two different OSs, if one OS is available which can cover both low end PCs, and high end workstations. That is the reason I would say that if NT is as good a product as UNIX, UNIX will eventually lose the war. Just record what I said today, and five years later you will know !!!!!!!!!!!Sun, Orcl, Novell is fighting their last war !!!!!!!!!