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

To: LindyBill who wrote (13579)	12/28/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I noticed that the market capitalization for Sybase is only 550 million-- pocket change for MSFT. The question is what are they planning: Options are a)they are worried about DOJ if they go after a Sybase or Informix and are forced to develop internally b)they are developing internally and don't need Sybase or Informix c)they plan to buy a Sybase or Informix d)they don't want to get into the high end business because it won't be very profitable -- not worth their while e)they don't want to piss any of their current partners who are buyers of SQL 7.0 (I actually think they will be quite happy with such a move) f)they don't want to branch out too much -- which could result in breakup of the company g)maybe they want to branch out into everything that can be profitable and eventually want a break up of the company -- shareholders win big at that time (hopefully years down the road) My guess is (b) with a chance of (a) or (c)--and a tiny chance of (g) I think MSFT's philosophy is to go into some business in a big way or don't bother at all. Since they have started SQL Server -- IMHO, they will continue until they get a dominant market share.