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

To: LindyBill who wrote (19965)	4/7/1999 4:21:00 PM
From: keithsha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't think I'll speculate about my employer's religious affiliations :-) The haters just need someone to hate. MSFT is an easy target. Consider the source as well. Many of our competitors are threatened, not necessarily by MSFT, but by the dissolution of their proprietary lockin of customers to low volume / high margin hardware and software. As to software quality, NT is a robust enough product for companies such as Boeing, Chicago Stock Exchange, Compaq, Dow Chemical, Fidelity, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Texaco, and Saturn to rely on Windows NT Server-based systems to deliver computational, transaction, and I/O capacity requirements for their most demanding environments. Keithsha

To: LindyBill who wrote (19965)	4/7/1999 4:31:00 PM
From: Kevin Hay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

re: << How do they explain the continued success of NT? >> I don't know about 'they' but my take is that it's about 'total cost of ownership' TCO. In short, do you want to work at a command line level or with a gui? The market is resoundingly saying gui, even though most performance specs are better on unix. If you're running a business you don't care about specs, you care about the cost of your total solution. repeat question: does any one have data on pc unit sales this year ie: q1? thanks -Kevin

To: LindyBill who wrote (19965)	4/8/1999 11:42:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I am beginning to think these people are so blinded by their hatred that they refuse to admit what is going on in the marketplace. How do they explain the continued success of NT? Brute force marketing? LB, MSFT haters tend to be techies who understand the technical flaws of MSFT OS software. What they fail to understand is that selecting an OS is not done in a closet. It is driven by the selection of applications/solutions. What are solution-providers writing to--MSFT first and foremost, and usually, exclusively.