Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Adam Nash who wrote (8644)	10/12/1998 7:55:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 19080

True, even so...not many people trade based on PR. The favorable stuff online was likely from MS-supplied or related sites. Don't doubt MS's PR machine. It is the biggest disinformation juggernaut ever devised. If MS came in 10% under predicted earnings, the PR would trumpet how well they did in comparison to other, less meaningful, quarters, and downplay the bad news. MS is due for a fall, and it is coming rapidly. They have failed to achieve several of their biggest goals (Win98 wasn't as big as they had hoped, SQL isn't rolling out the way they'd like, MSNetwork isn't where they'd like it to be [on this last note, I have information that is deadly, since I was speaking to them 1 year after startup, and you should have seen the #'s they touted to me...in retrospect, I realized how they were trying to deceive]), and have managed to downplay the facts relevant.