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Technology Stocks : Novell & Sun Microsystems - Takeover?? Do you have info?
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To: Joe Antol who wrote (80)6/18/1996 10:39:00 AM
From: vinod Khurana   of 84
 
<<60,000 MICROSOFT MAIL USERS CHOOSE NOVELL GROUPWISE>>

This is O.K but not great news.

I doubt to many MSFT mail users will switch to Groupwise and especially the big shops. Boeing, EDS, GM, Allied Signal are examples of large companies implementing Exchange Server after having tested the beta program.

If you read the June 15th issue of Network Computing, the cover shows two messaging/groupware packages in the boxing ring: Lotus Notes and MSFT Exchange Server. Novell Groupwise is receiving very little headline coverage compared to these two. The headline reads:

"Messaging Standoff- Notes vs Exchange Server" I have not read the article but can imagine what the magazine has to say.

The company I am currently with is moving to Exchange in a big way over coming months.....but we were always a MS Mail shop. Nobody here bothered looking at Groupwise or is thinking of doing so and I think the other large companies are doing the same.

Could it be that NOVL the company has an image problem ? NOVL products are no doubt very good and technically speaking stand out from the crowd BUT for some reason, the word NOVELL on the software is having a slightly -'ve effect.

It would be nice to find out which large shops (5,000+ users) are switching from other mail packages to Groupwise. Can anyone post them on this board ?

I would still like to see NOVL tie the knot with a larger partner. At $18 - $21/share, I would tender what little I have. NOVL on its own has little chance of regaining lost market share (in my opinion).

V.K
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