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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?

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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (27685)8/12/1999 3:33:00 PM
From: ToySoldier  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
Paul, I think you have hit a lot of the assumptions square on. Too many companies have been burned by trusting their great "industry leading ideas/products" on MSFT's proprietary technologies. MSFT has clearly set its reputation in the industry as being a company that cannot be trusted with a Partner's great ideas.

AOL has watch the browser, disk compression, messaging, multi-user NT, and countless other great ideas from "so-called" MSFT partners get destroyed by MSFT's dirty plays in the industry.

AOL, IBM, NOVL, Oracle, Sun, and many of the other major players know that the only way to stop this MSFT trick is to come together and develop an industry accepted non-MSFT open set of standards.

I still predict that MSFT's glory days are ending because all their land-mines in the industry have now been marked and the industry players will now set a path to avoid being damaged by their next trick. They can't be trusted as a partner. We all have seen that.

Good observation Paul!

Toy
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