Hello waldemar ... well actually all ... ;-)
I am *way* behind posting since being involved in several projects, and Brainshare, and now research into several new collaboration tools and new areas of science.
I'm catching up tonight, and am more than 400+ posts behind ... I'll get through them in the next few hours.
One thing that I have to say is that there are some very new and exciting trends emerging in the marketplace. I know that my portfolio across the board has been hammered pretty good by now, but IMHO there is an interesting transformation of the market. I have been doing a lot of reading about neural nets, and neural programming ... by my most recent work in memetics is leading to some very interesting conclusions ...
I'll keep reading and post more later ... and how it relates to Novell ...
Anyhow, with respect to your post:
"Thankyou, Scott Lemon for keeping NOvell from dropping to 3 dollars a share!"
So, I can only say that I really can't take the credit for that. The stock actually exists in a semi-free market system where the prices are determined by "market forces". Now I am not an expert at the stock market - by any stretch - but as I understand it, when more people sell (rather than buy), the stock price will decline. When more people want to buy (rather than sell) then the stock price rises. Since I have neither bought nor sold any Novell stock recently, I don't know that I could have effected the price through trading. And so I have to blame those silly investors who sold ... if they would have just held their shares, the stock would still be at $40+/share! And if I look at this scientifically, we shareholders would then be limiting the number of shares available to buy to zero (or a very small number) which would have pushed the price through the roof during this last market downturn. But sadly, there are a large number of investors who made the choice to sell ... and so they sold, and others sold ... and the *investors* drove the price through the floor. Imagine that ... the stock price is controlled by the market ... ;-)
I will say however, that I am developing a lot of expertise in an area that I can only call "memetic engineeing". It is a relatively new science - called "memetics" - and from what I am learning in this space (combined with some of my own theories which I am writing up) I can see that there are a number of actions which can be taken to create the attention and interest in what we have to offer. And that *is* something which I am learning and working on.
I recently returned from the Foresight Institute gathering in Palo Alto (http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/spring2001/index.html) where the discussions about the future offered me some interesting perspectives on what to think about for the next several years. There are a number of new "waves" that are coming our way, about to drastically alter the industry, the Internet, and the planet. It's not a single product or technology, but what is going to be created by the synergies and convergence of a number of them. Open Source, Peer to Peer, Digital Identity Management, Wireless connectivity, and Wearable/Mobile Computers all fit into an interesting model of how the future can be. And I am working with teams at Novell in all of these areas right now. Much of the work is being built on existing Novell products that are being used in new and innovative ways.
For Brainshare we rolled out some of our research in wearable computers ... using ZENworks to provide Automated Management and Configuration of these new computing platforms. This work has already created several new opportunities and partnerships. I am now actively involved with the key hardware manufacturers in this emerging market to accelerate the capabilities and delivery of these new platforms.
We also have a team that took over digitalme.com ... and we are now progressing with the original research that started the project ... and it is rapidly expanding into some new areas and integrating some of our latest solutions. I am also actively working with our engineers and business development teams to evolve our solutions. We are creating new partnerships to exploit the future of digital identity, automating the storage and exchange of identity information, combined with wireless and variations on collaboration.
I have been working to assist and support a wide range of teams throughout Novell - engineering, product management, business development, sales, etc. - and although the external effects of this might not yet be visible there are some incredible people at Novell working together to create the future ... and in my opinion we are well positioned with solutions and core platforms for the future.
As these solutions continue to gain visibility, there will be more awareness of just how relevant we are ... IMHO.
Even with that, I'll see what I can do to get the word out more ... I swear that I *have* been busy! ;-)
Scott C. Lemon
P.S. The first quarter of my options vest in July, and I can see that they are currently worthless. So I am quite motivated to do something about that ... even though I really am in this for the game!
P.P.S. If you choose to, please feel free to publicly attack me ... I am more than glad to be your "public whipping boy" for anything that you have to say. If it makes you feel better (which memetics tells will be a short lived high, a very primitive behavior) then I'll be glad to be here for you. |
