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...TECH STOCKS Winners. Even if they never get religion on traditional dividends, cash cows Oracle, Dell, Microsoft and Cisco could issue "deemed" dividends that reflect profit that might have been paid as cash but was instead retained by the company for future investment. For tax purposes, the value of undistributed profit would be added to the price you paid for the stock and leave you with a smaller taxable gain when you sell...
...will make stocks more attractive and help the market. "Frankly, it's the biggest bang for the buck," says Glen Hubbard, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. To discourage finagling, only companies that pay federal taxes can issue tax-free dividends. In lieu of cash, growth companies like Microsoft that don't pay dividends can issue "deemed" dividends, which represent reinvested profits...
...Blue, of course, isn't the only one going after this industry Holy Grail. It will have to do battle with hardwaremakers like Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems; consultants like Accenture; outsourcers like EDS; and software players like BEA, Oracle and Microsoft. Its competitors snort that IBM simply glues together a hodgepodge of inferior systems--all too often pushing its own--and then charges big bucks to have its consultants keep them from breaking down, an approach they predict will soon lose its appeal. IBM's strategy "is an acknowledgment that the very technology it has been peddling all these...
...eBay. J.D. Edwards, an enterprise software company focused on the fast-growing market among medium-size businesses (those with 100 to 1,000 employees), recently decided to standardize all its applications on IBM's middleware. "It's about ongoing viability, who's going to be able to compete with Microsoft," says Lenley Hensarling, a vice president of product management at J.D. Edwards. "We're going to see a choosing up of sides...
SOFTWARE Peeping Into Windows For geeks, it's a scintillating show: Microsoft is releasing its closely guarded Windows source code - the instructions that make it run - to most governments. The move is designed to fend off the threat from Linux, the open-source platform that is gaining headway in governments across Europe. Cheaper and, many experts say, more secure than Windows, Linux is the world's fastest-growing server operating system. Openness becomes a strength because users share improvements. Microsoft wants to reassure governments about security, but it hasn't shed all its reserve. This show is only a peep...