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To: isdsms who wrote (40521)	12/18/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: PCSS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Ira, You are among the most fortunate ... you HAVE money. Yes it is on the sideline .. I'm sure you will figure out how to use it wisely and profitably. Have a wonderful holiday season. Michael

To: isdsms who wrote (40521)	12/18/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Respond to of 97611

Ira, you are not by your self. Be patient, the market rewards patience. I'm feel like a circling buzzard waiting for a meal to die. <gg> NW

To: isdsms who wrote (40521)	12/18/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

IT Execs Express Discontent With Windows by: hlpinout 46561 of 46563 By Scott Berinato, PC Week Online December 18, 1998 2:48 PM ET While it may be fashionable to criticize Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, a straw poll taken at this week's Giga Information Group's Emerging Technology Scene conference suggests that feelings about the operating system run deeper than casual distaste. At the conference, held in La Quinta, Calif., 82 out of 142 IT executives in attendance, or 58 percent, said they would switch from Windows if they had the chance. Giga analyst Rob Enderle conducted the poll. Although a poll with such a small sample size is unscientific and not representative of the population as a whole, Enderle believes the results are strong enough to indicate a trend. Enderle also asked the group to name the vendor they trusted least to deliver on promises. Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) topped the list at 59 percent, followed by America Online Inc. (NYSE:AOL)/Netscape Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:NSCP) at 14 percent, Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) at 13 percent, IBM (NYSE:IBM) at 9 percent, and Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP), Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ) and Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC) at 2 percent or less. In a published report, Enderle said, "Given the fact that the desktop market space is predominately Windows, the results show an unusually high degree of dissatisfaction and a willingness to move to something else." One option may be Linux. The open-source operating system is gaining by leaps and bounds. Just this week International Data Corp. reported the OS's market share grew by 212 percent in 1998. Many developments, including the release of the Linux development kernel 2.2, are expected to propel Linux in 1999. Enderle compared the anti-Microsoft sentiments to those expressed toward IBM a decade ago.