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

To: Teflon who wrote (22442)	5/10/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: KYA27	Respond to of 74651

Lucent Technologies is trying out a laser four times as fast as Nortel's, with plans to make it available in the first quarter of next year. Roth's Canada-based company is pushing Wave Division Multiplexing to new heights, sending 160 colors of light, each carrying 10 billion bits of information per second, down one strand -- 640 times more bandwidth than could be achieved five years ago. Scheduled for trial runs later this year and commercial deployment in 2000, this technology could ship the entire contents of the Library of Congress to New York on a single piece of glass in 14 seconds. Mat Steinberg, a top fiber-optic analyst for consulting firm Ryan Hankin Kent Inc. of South San Francisco, said Nortel has the technology lead -- this week. Other competitors are racing ahead with their own fiber-optic advancements, which promise to drive the number of colors and the speed of the lasers even further. For example, Lucent Technologies is trying out a laser four times as fast as Nortel's, with plans to make it available in the first quarter of next year.

To: Teflon who wrote (22442)	5/10/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: ericneu	Respond to of 74651

The reason -- it's simple -- BALLMER. Thank God we have him. --- Those of us who work there feel the same way :). - Eric

To: Teflon who wrote (22442)	5/10/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Teflon, I agree with you to some extent on the options. Unless I can see better odds, I am not willing to take a chance on them. Of course better odds come with a somewhat lower MSFT price IMHO (75 or so) or a price that remains stable for a little while longer. I believe MSFT has been in the bottoming out process although I don't really believe in TA. I just think it becomes too good of a bargain in the 75 to 77 range based upon its fundamentals. I just see a short term range which could go up ONLY to 83 or so. I need better potential than that to buy short term options (leaps are OK in my opinion at current prices). However, I would be willing to try Julys if the stock remains at current levels going into early June or just after the re-start of the trial. In July I am hoping to see the 90s at least. I did buy but picked the Nasdq 100---QQQ trust units this morning to capitalize on the move in the big cap techs. Sensing that the Kosovo crisis may be just about to end which will cause a short term rally (i think the rally has already started). Picked up RNWK and AT&T for a day trade that I hope will be profitable otherwise I might unload RNWK at a loss but may keep T if it does closer lower than my purchase price.