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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (30781)3/22/2000 11:42:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas  Read Replies (3) of 42771
 
Not to go too in-depth on this topic here but I just wanted to toss this idea out...but Scott, you know me :)

Novell has developed a personal identity management software called digitalme. They should be developing personal directories as well for obvious reasons. There's a catch to developing BOTH of these packages....it's only one piece in a much LARGER puzzle.

IMHO - the reason digitalme has washed into the background light is that there is no "community" platform for digitalme to "plug" into. There are two-sides to the community - the membership and the "communal" services they share. These services NEED hardware and software to function :) So that means there needs to be some server software developed.

Here's my thoughts:

1) Novell develops a framework of "community management software" so that entities (companies, individuals, groups etc) can create online communities. This software should include specific tools to facilitate the interaction of people again with specific objectives involved.

2) Further develop digitalme as the "client" software to access these communities built upon Novell's "community management software". Call this Personal Identity Management software if you wish.

Of course, keep it all open, web-based and easily accessible for developers to further move these tools forward.

What's Novell's end goal?

SELL MORE DIRECTORY SERVICES PRODUCTS AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS.

There are over a few HUNDRED companies building decent tools for communities but not too many building tools to manage these communities efficiently to specific goals. There is no framework to plug BEST OF BREED tools even!!!

So for any efforts Novell expends in developing identity management software for individuals, they need to spend twice the amount of energy, time and money to develop the back end systems as well.

What glues it all together is DIRECTORY SERVICES.

Regards,
Peter J Strifas
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