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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (11072)	9/29/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: Claude	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Toy, hope you're not slipping - thought for sure you'd have posted this by now <g> biz.yahoo.com Claude (rhymes with TOAD)

To: ToySoldier who wrote (11072)	9/29/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: J Krnjeu	Respond to of 74651

Mr. ToySoldier, <<>> Sure you have, you've read the garbage from the anti-Microsoft people on this thread. Thank You JK

To: ToySoldier who wrote (11072)	9/29/1998 7:49:00 PM
From: J Krnjeu	Respond to of 74651

Mr. ToySoldier, Here's what was missing from the previous post. <<I have not heard a more hypocritical pile of dung in my life>> Thank You JK

To: ToySoldier who wrote (11072)	9/30/1998 1:11:00 AM
From: J. P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<You must be a Slider, because this following statement cant be of this world....> What's a slider? Anyways, I'm a realist both in my investing and in my profession in telecom integrations. I integrate software over a variety of platforms for huge fortune 100 companies. This includes a large maker of modems you may have heard of, a giant pharmaceutical company that makes a male drug you may have heard of, a cellular phone maker, and a maker of disk drives. Right now I'm speaking to you from L.A. where I'm doing an integration for a very large provider of corporate intranet backbones.... The point of this is I see what's out here in the real world, and have to work with it on a huge scale, whether techno weenies like you debate from the comforts of your armchairs whether it's the sleekest or not. And let me tell you, first of all I don't see Apple stuff anywhere in corporate america. I blanch when I have to do an OS/2 integration, it's got it's own set of protocols, and invariable has to be run with Windows. I'm forced to regularly use IBM servers, and have a litany of problems with them from spontaneous reboots, to "blue screens of death". Compaq will not allow us to upgrade the boards we need to frequently add to customize an installation, but we are having to tiptoe into those waters and we will see. And I will say UNIX is my favorite database platform, but you can never squeeze a profit margin out of Sun PC stuff. And HP? way too expensive. JAVA? sure it's coming around, the wave of the future and all that, but doesn't Microsoft have it's own flavor? Who's java is the best? Plus JAVA will be run off MS Exporer anyways, so you can chalk that up to them anyways. In a perfect world of enterprise corporate software integration I always like to go to a site with NT and I have no choice but to use our good old IBM servers, because in the final analysis they give us the most flexibility at a reasonable price. So there.