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Then, in March, a peaked tree in an area of the grounds known as the Dell became dangerously rotten. Gardeners were forced to chop it down...
...best indicator of where the overall high-tech winds are blowing. It's a member of the Dow, NASDAQ and the S&P, which is the practical reason why Wall Street's trio of indexes all tanked on the news. But the spiritual malaise is just as contagious; Microsoft, Dell and Cisco all took overnight hits as well. Intel's announcement also comes early in a third-quarter earnings season that investors are nervous enough about already. Bad earnings news revives fears that Greenspan's soft landing may be a rocky one for corporations...
...PENGUIN THAT ROARED Linux, the little operating system that could, is catching up with big siblings Windows and Macintosh. Last week high-tech heavyweights IBM and Dell announced new deals to sell Linux servers, and a host of other firms declared their support for Gnome, a Windows-like user interface for Linux. Unlike its stuffier competitors, Linux is free, and was developed collaboratively by an international community of hackers. Also unlike its competitors, it has a funky penguin as a mascot...
...five years Microsoft's price-earnings ratio has ranged between 30 and 80 and averaged 51. Now the P/E is 41, by that measure its lowest point and best value in many months. That earnings multiple is well below those placed on lower-margin businesses run by, among others, Dell and Sun. And history (notably the 1984 breakup of AT&T) suggests that breakups work out well for shareholders...
...last time I tried to set up a wireless network at home, both my PC and, worse, my wife's crashed. The technology, happily, is much improved. Dell's system comes with a CD-ROM that has a video-based setup tutorial that, among other things, explains--as well as shows--how to put a PCI card into your desktop machine. Once installed, the network performed smoothly and without glitches. I can't wait to start using it at the coffee shop...