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

To: ed who wrote (23248)	5/26/1999 2:56:00 AM
From: Scott Overholser	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>>Say, your company is runing a 1975 Model of IBM main frame, which can not handle the Y2k problem, then the easiest and cheapest way to do is buy new pcs installed with win98 which can handle y2k << yeah but... - ibm's mainframes handle y2k just fine. it's the software that has problems - the operating systems and applications. ibm has probably made y2k compliant releases of all it's supported operating systems. - win98 running on a pc will never replace a mainframe. some folks might think that windows is more "modern" than those mainframe beasts. the attraction of those dinosaurs is that they only need to be shut down for dusting. they need to be dusted only once each year. they also support gobs of users with really really big databases that really scale. they have been multitasking since the 1960's. they can even multitask operating systems - not just applications. they don't do windows. okay - so i was joking about the dusting. i wasn't joking about shutting down once a year.