[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

Paul Sture wrote:

> "Mind you, if we take inflation into account, Microsoft's bubble-era 
> valuation looks even more impressive. The company's peak 1999 market cap 
> would be worth $857.2bn in 2012 dollars, making Microsoft comparatively 
> much more valuable than Apple at both companies' respective peaks."


You could do the same to show that Digital was once much bigger that
Microsoft, Compaq, Apple etc.

Valuations are used to compare. If you are to compare Apple to
Microsoft, you need to compare their respective value sampled at the
same time.

Apple has grown out of its computing roots and is now mass market
consumer electronics.  Microsoft hasn't made that jump.

If one were to compare Apple's computer  business  to Microsoft, I
suspect MS would still be quite a bit larger.