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

To: mozek who wrote (11260)	10/10/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: Dennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hi Mozek, I owned msft for some time. Sold at 104 a while back. Please check post 9926 from John. Do you have anything to add or subtract from that post? Thanks in advance.

To: mozek who wrote (11260)	10/10/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: stak	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

mozek, >>I'm surprised that your asking Cheryl since she works for Sun.<< I generally try to lurk for awhile to get a feel for a thread before posting to it, however I haven't had the luxury of the time to do that. That being said, I haven't found anything remotely untoward in cheryl's answers to myself. In fact, I have been very impressed by the dialogue on this thread. >> If you don't mind an opinion from someone who might have an idea.<< Sure I'd love to know . >>My honest opinion is that I think Microsoft knows what they need to do with NT 5.0. Sun, Novell, and others are scared s***less that it'll be a raging success, and I believe it will.<< I think that Microsoft knows what they have to do too, but I'm wondering how close execution will be to the goal set for NT 5.0. I'd be scared too, even if it's not even close to a raging success this time around. >> Will it be reliable out of the gate? I believe so. Will there be a service pack? Probably so.<< I'm a neophyte in the O/S area and I don't know quite what you mean by reliable. Are we talking strictly in the enterprise "mission critical" area or the consumer desktop arena also. In the enterprise area I take reliable to mean, no excuses, anytime for glitches. If you were a CIO would you be satisfied with an "I believe it will be reliable" answer. or would it have to be "I bet my job and reputation on this product?? >> Even if it takes until after 2000 for NT 5.0 to really take off in the marketplace (and I mean REALLY take off), NT will continue to take market share away from Sun and other Unix vendors.<< Doesn't Microsoft, as well as every O/S company have to start from scratch to prove that it is dead reliable on the IA-64? I guess I mean will NT5.0 be run with its 32 bit code on the Merced as is? >>I know Linux is an excellent system, and while it does have RAS, I don't think it's going to catch up to NT in usability. NT on the other hand will be as reliable and scalable as any Unix on the market.<< I've heard many hi end tech guys say that Linux is great for various reasons. It seems to me that is what an O/S is supposed to be all about(RAS) for top end systems. I don't see the advantage to NT 5.0 except for great backup support from Microsoft. What do you mean by usability? Linux guys seem to have no problems using Linux, in fact they crow about what they can do with it. >>Of course, I work for Microsoft, and you might consider me biased even though I'm really expressing my honest opinion.<< I'm sure its your honest opinion, but sometimes company options can make one more "honest" than others.<g>. The usual grain of salt thing... >> always the occasional Microsoft surprise.<< Can you give a hint? >>Rudedog's posts have been closest to the mark.<< Yes rudedog has had some beaut posts recently on this thread. stak BTW, are you on the NT 5.0 team?