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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (11597)	10/22/1998 2:24:00 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Toy, What's this? biz.yahoo.com Dell swaps Novell software for Microsoft's ATLANTA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) on Wednesday said Dell Computer Corp., in a move to resolve its Year 2000 issues and consolidate its in-house computer systems, has replaced Novell Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) server software with Microsoft Corp.(Nasdaq:MSFT - news) software. In a statement, Microsoft said Dell has consolidated its servers from 225 to 25 by changing from Novell NetWare software to Microsoft Windows NT operating system software. Servers are high-speed computers that hold programs and data shared by all users connected to computer networks. Operating systems are the control systems that run computers and set the standards for all programs that function on them. Dell said in the release that it is now using the Windows NT Server system for file and print, messaging, Web and other services. The company said it chose the Windows operating system for its ability to consolidate applications and infrastructure onto a single system in order to drive down management costs.

To: ToySoldier who wrote (11597)	10/22/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: Robert E. Lee, Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Keep those technical posts coming, ToySoldier. As a lurker in this forum (and others), I just wanted to express my opinion that I find the technical discussions such as yours of the quality of MSFT products vs. the competition to be much more informative and useful than many other posts here, particularly those saying something like "MSFT will go up/down to $XXX soon", which are mostly uninformed opinions and/or wishes. Although your posts tend to be long, I find myself reading them in their entirety and with much more interest than most of the other posts I find here. Keep up the good work. Cheers, The General PS. Toy, I also suggest you refrain from making stock price predictions, too. It only gives the other guys ammunition if/when you're wrong, and you don't seem to be the gloating type if/when you are right.