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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: Jack Whitley who wrote (28067)9/12/1999 12:05:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas   of 42771
 
While their announcement makes for some interesting speculation, it is after all just an announcement. Until I can see, test and then buy a product, it makes for a good press release.

Also, their are making an NDS-compliant directory - that to me suggests a directory that conforms to NDS and follows NDS-related guidelines on how information is managed and stored. Sounds to me as if NDS becomes the standard (like LDAP-compliant products now follow the guidelines of the LDAP specification).

I see this as a positive for Novell - as long as someone at Novell reads this the same way and makes this part of their PR.

Also, if these ex-Novell employees have the ability to program for NDS, creating a directory "add-on" for NDS isn't a far stretch. In fact, Novell is hoping MORE companies do this. It's the main thrust of their moving from a server-centric world to the directory-centric world. If this TRG product is something of a "NDS for NT2000" product, I'm sure that Novell would not mind much of there was more than one product providing this type of service.

Imagine the PR on that one! 2 companies have a product to give Windows2000 a real directory backbone! What would that say for MSFT? What would that say for Novell! I could see more companies spending some time, effort and $$ to develop more NDS-based apps.

This would be the ultimate goal of Novell. Get the developers on-board and the rest will follow. We could profit from a page from MSFT's past :)

Peter J Strifas
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