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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47379)	2/16/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike According to this item, the ever-growing legion of MSFT-haters have reason for hope. Monopolies are never good but monopolies for junk products are also ridiculous. dailynews.yahoo.com Sure wouldn't mind owning some MSFT puts the day before a major OEM announces that buyers can choose Windows or Linux. The head nerd might be the first person ever to lose $10B in one day. John

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47379)	2/16/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Martin A. Helfand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

All: Update on the "progress" T.Kurlak's career- Kurlak has left ML to join Tiger Hedge Fund run by Julian Robertson and manage their tech portfolio. This will be an interesting one to follow.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47379)	2/16/1999 2:53:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike: here is a compliment of you, although I don't know who is WH. To: +Glenn D. Rudolph (40345 ) From: +Sonny Blue Tuesday, Feb 16 1999 2:09PM ET Reply # of 40366 Glen, I respect MB's opinion as much as WH's. I followed him since the DOS day of Prodigy chat room. Never bet against MB. BTW, DELL next support is at 80. techstocks.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47379)	2/16/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

lastrega.com Quite a bit of this has been employed on the Dell thread lately. Especially the "play dumb" part. <g> I think Slick wrote the manual, though. <g> Tom

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47379)	2/16/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike Great Y2K scare stuff ! taguru.com Time for more KEA ? Also found this on another thread. Love the part about the programmers buying survival supplies. I'll admit to being a skeptic about Y2K but these stories have me convinced that they have one more great run left in them. John Y2K & Oil FWIW: Editor: As a Cobol programmer fixing code for Y2K compliance for a large oil trading firm, I must strongly disagree with your conclusions in your recent editorial on Y2K. I can assure you that most large companies are way behind schedule, including my own. Regrettably, these very same companies tell the general public everything is OK and not to worry when they know they have no chance of making the deadline. Even though most large corporations will indeed finish their necessary code changes, they will not have enough time for testing. Testing is one of the biggest bugaboos in the whole Y2K fiasco. Also, there is no set protocol for date formatting using the popular "windowing" repair scheme between companies code repairs. Testing is at least 50 percent of most Y2K projects. There is a critical shortage of people qualified to test. The situation is really quite desperate and most code programmers are indeed stocking up on food. Most people have no idea how severe and long-lasting the disruptions will be. Those who do not prepare may possibly die as a result of Y2K. Another important area you did not mention was the dismal state of Y2K compliance of the federal government. Most other countries are way behind us. We are not an island. Foreign supply chains will be a big problem.