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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (12686)	11/28/1998 7:52:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Respond to of 74651

If MSFT gets broken up, the aggregate price of the shares will increase dramatically. If you follow history, just look at what happened to the aggregate value of all of the other companies that were broken up. And you think Gates is rich now???

To: ToySoldier who wrote (12686)	11/28/1998 10:34:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 74651

>Nothing could be farther from the truth folks! What is "truth", Toy?

To: ToySoldier who wrote (12686)	11/28/1998 11:33:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

And the decision continues on to say that MSFT must break apart. ... Reality will eventually sink in and the stock will be on its way back down. At least I got several people on this board to make stock predictions on MSFT! So now lets see who is right in the coming months. Can you say "Standard Oil?" Can you say "Ma Bell?" Any shareholders who held the resulting pieces of those break-ups made out like kings, let alone bandits. Would there be short term volatility? Yes. Would the smart person use this as an opportunity to buy more? Yes. At the very least they'd hold on. Just think of the all the AT&T shareholder who sold on the break-up news lost. AT&T, NCR, all the Baby Bells, Lucent. Wow. But I guess if you want to be safe you should sell on the hint of a rumor of the possibility of bad news.