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

To: rudedog who wrote (11013)	9/25/1998 1:04:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

It's about marketing You've neatly summarized why Linux will flop in the consumer market. Why don't folks just eat generic luncheon meat? It's sensible, nutritious, and economical. Whatever happened to those "white label" cans that used to line supermarket shelves? There will always be a segment that urges "sensible" self-denial to others, but the consumer market is driven by marketing not "common sense". CPQ and others sell image as well as economy with their sub-$1000 machines and that will continue as the price points of hardware continue to ratchet down.