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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (12368)	11/19/1998 6:20:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Toy Boy: Well the news release was that Inprise (old Borland) had offered to license their tools to MSFT. No mention was made of MSFT accepting to engage in talks. It seems that you have a wishful way of reading things. But unlike the fairy tale sadly "wishing does not make it so". Of course the Inprise offer is gratuitous as they are in the business of licensing their software. The point I was making and I guess the market woke up to it today that this was not so very injurious to MSFT as they by now had alternate paths to follow in this regard with Inprise being an example of a 3rd party alternative. The onous is actually on Sun to judge whether or not it is in the best interests of their shareholders to encourage MSFT to abandon their support of "Java" as supplied by Sun. These are business decisions that are made in the cold arena of the marketplace under the watchful eye of fickle investors. JFD