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

To: t2 who wrote (17309)	3/6/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: taxman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

"On the day before the eventual judgement, I will be buying a lot of call options out of the money.---" implied volatility should increase causing option premiums to rise leading up to judgement day assuming the verdict is still uncertain. regards

To: t2 who wrote (17309)	3/6/1999 5:14:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

The sound I hear is MSFT breaking up ... under its OWN weight. I agree that there is money to be made on any overreaction to the outcome of the trial. I may buy some calls myself. After all ... MSFT's revenue streams won't dry up overnight. A parallel to Casey's "If it's the truth, it ain't braggin' " ... is Rusty's "If it's a fact ... it ain't hype". Ignore Linux at your own risk. Servers running Linux will outnumber those running NT in the year 2000 or 2001 whether you like it or not. It doesn't compete with Windows 98 ... yet. Stay tuned. GNOME Screenshots: gnome.org Yes ... another free GUI for Linux better than Windows. (As if KDE, XFree86 and Enlightenment weren't enough.) MSFT has even bigger problems with NOVL. Buy a copy of Barron's. Message 8185398 Message 8185412 Maybe Microsoft can get into the agricultural industry ... spreading cr@p. They are expert at something at least. And innovative. This just in ... Microsoft, bowing to industry pressure and truth in advertising groups has renamed Active Directory to "Inactive Directory".