> I was at a meeting with several fairly high level Microsoft sales
> people. My is this an arrogant breed.
>
> One was spouting about their recent purchase of Intuit and soon to be
> Macromedia. Their plan is to force users to deploy and view on
> Microsoft products. Macromedia is threatening because their
> best-of-breed products work on all platforms with all kinds of
> servers. Soon ColdFusion and Flash may be stuck sending/retrieving
> data from expensive SQLServer databases rather than free mySQL.
>
> This is very scary stuff. Microsoft is becoming like a shadow
> government where a business tax is being imposed on EVERYONE.
>
> I found out today that the cost of the MS software only on a pretty
> limited web connected database will be $5500 and soon there will be no
> options if Gates&Co have their way.
>
> I’m writing my congressmen.
>
>
> RT
oh well…what can you do? our government is not supposed to interfere with a monoploly… i say we write to mm and have ALL of us sign it…other wise our comps are going to look like this
actually dipi… the government is supposed to interfere if they feel that a company is beginning to become a monopoly. However, the execs at MS have probably paid off most of the politicians so they will be able to do whatever they want anyway. It wouldn’t be so bad if MS products were quality…but MS sucks…
the gov’t each year, pays a certain number of farmers to not grow corn/wheat/beans, and let thier land go fallow. It’s their warped idea of subsidizing Agriculture in America…
Reverend,
Do you EVEN farm? lol. Jubba yeah i dont know, i learnd something in school about it. donno though…it was at the begining of the year. But didnt MS win that monopoly trail last/2 year(s) ago?
Thats a good plan Rev, we should go into business together…
Dipi: They won that case because M$ appealed to a higher court and the higher court determined that M$ was not a monopoly. They won because they most likely paid off the judges. Its sad that we live in a world where you can do anything if you have enough money.
Also Dipi: not to steal your thunder but you will find out eventually that not everything your teachers tell you is true. Many teachers are not exactly qualified for their jobs and try more to impose their opinions on their students rather than facts. Also, things you are taught when you are younger will contradict things that you are taught later in life. When you are younger schools give you the simple basics of certain subjects and when you get older you will be taught something that will contradict what you previously knew. To live is to learn.
I still have to re-learn many of the things that I was ‘taught’ in high school…
oh i know that already. but see my mom told me this while we were talking about books, advice from her HS teacher:
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** Absolutly nothing in life is fact, only opinion. If you were to line 10 people up and have them witness something, then question them on it, you would get totaly different responses from everybody, but they will all be along the same lines. This is because everone has their own background that they come from, everyone is raised differently therefore everybody sees things differently, so you really cant trust the facts because they are really just opinions.**
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i say we write to mm and have ALL of us sign it…other wise our comps are going to look like this 
